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Money on the invasion. for the chinese, they don't see the threat of economic sanctions, the military threat. the german situation is concerning. the germans have had close ties with russia and china. they relied on the united states to take care of their defense. they barely pay over 1% of gdp on defense. we have to bring our allies and it's hard to do with a company like germany that makes so much money from russia and china and gets free defense from the u.s. the german people want to be with us, want to be with the ukrainians, but joe biden, president biden has a war cut out for him to bri...

America, and we've got to do it here. and basically, the incentives that we're putting in the inflation reduction act was intended totally to give us all the energy that we need right here and use the processes of what we do the in america to make sure that we're energy independent and we're secure in remaining the superpower of the world. and you can't do it if you're depending on foreign supply chains to produce your energy too. so this is what the bill's intended, this is what i'm stressing every day to make sure that happens and watching the administration how they administer it. maria: so...

Track, it's $113 billion, and the u.k.'s the next in line at $5 billion. haven't him agreed to see you. >> you, too, my friend. ♪ ♪ >> trace: let's talk about where things stand ukraine exactly one year after the russian invasion, and the mixed signals being sent by china on the war. with retired army general and fox news contributor, keith kellogg. general, always great to have you on. it's interesting because president biden was talking to abc news tonight and he said that he does not see a major initiative by china to give russia weapons. and then he said this. listen. >> but if they di...

Will: and dangerous. take a look, united states now koenenal contribution appropriated by congress from u.s. to ukraine reached $113 billion. we need a bit of a break down on that. unit given $32 billion in direct security funding to ukraine. now let's compare that to other countries. $8.3 billion by the uk, germany $6.16 billion, canada $4, poland $3.5 billion. you can see united states far in a way leads those contributing to ukrainian defense and i was looking up what the ukrainian total budget was for their own expenditures and ukraine's 2022 budget was about $48.5 billion u.s. dollars and...

There it is. the himars rocket system in the middle at the bottom, abrams tanks up there on top. significant amounts of material and, you know, it should be said people say, oh, it's billions of collars. well, it's not like we are spending, you know, we're putting $113 billion in cash on a pallet and sending it over there. that money goes to the, you know, pay americans' salaries and, younse contractors and things like that. so it's not exactly money that goes to ukraine and never come. >> that money is the best investment that welcome back we can maken american -- that we can make in american...