a unified coalition against russian aggression. they have been doing a lot to hit the russian economy hard. but this is a gap in our strategy. the failure of the west to cut off the purchase of russian oil and gas, and it has to be addressed. i m afraid a task force is quite not enough because it is going to take too long. russia as you pointed out sells sold in 2021 $489 billion to the west for oil and gas. that means a billion dollars a day still today the russians are selling that oil and gas to western europe, bringing in every week billions of dollars that is used to sustain this war effort. this is a moral shortcoming on the part of europe and a strategic mistake on the part of the west. we need to accelerate our effort to close this gap in our sanctions policy. yeah, really, really important. at the truly extraordinary nato summit in brussels yesterday, i
on oil and gas. that has to be ratcheted up. last year, putin or russia brought in some $489 billion of revenues from sales of oil and gas. that s over a billion dollars a day and even though today, those sales continue. every week, putin is receiving billions of dollars used to fuel this invasion. that has to stop. on the nato front, nato has to constitutionally be more involved in this crisis. facilitating the flow of assistance and i actually think nato should actually have a pre presence, no conflict zone established in western ukraine. a presence like that would provide safe haven for the millions of refugees that have been generated by putin s brutal invasion. it would provide territorial perpetuation of the ukrainian state. it would allow ukrainian forces to concentrate more effectively
since 1940, and cutting people out of the army smallest air force in modern history. on the defense side it s real, but you ll never convince me we can t find 1.2 trillion and spend 45 trillion over the next decade without destroying the defense department. a lot of this is scare tactics. republicans might lead. we should have an alternative and rather saying that president obama you go fix this by yourself? i really don t trust the president to fix it by himself. nor do i. he asked for new taxes and he got them in exchange for promising to cut spending. there have been no spending cuts, zero, now he wants more taxes. right. senator, this is, if the republicans cave-in on this, you know, and say mr. president womr. mr. president we ll give you some more taxes, he hasn t put it on the table. we might as well quit. the only thing we could in a serious way, the defense department. 489 billion taken out. 1.2 trillion in new taxes from obamacare.
want defense side it is real. you can t convince me wee will not find one trillion without dethe defense department. but the republicans, don t you think mike, should lead and wool is this ve ve - we should have a altern tiver. i don t trust the president to fix it by himself. nor do i. he got new taxings in exchange for cutting spending and there are zero spending cuts and now wants more taxings. senator, if the republicans cave in on this and say mr. president we ll give you more taxings, he still hasn t put cutos the tablings. thing we have cut is the defense department. 489 billion taken out. 1.2 trillion for obama care and will 600 billion fiscal
want defense side it is real. you can t convince me wee will not find one trillion without dethe defense department. but the republicans, don t you think mike, should lead and wool is this ve ve - we should have a altern tiver. i don t trust the president to fix it by himself. nor do i. he got new taxings in exchange for cutting spending and there are zero spending cuts and now wants more taxings. senator, if the republicans cave in on this and say mr. president we ll give you more taxings, he still hasn t put cutos the tablings. thing we have cut is the defense department. 489 billion taken out. 1.2 trillion for obama care and will 600 billion fiscal