Republican Senator Ben Sasse re Ukraine ...

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How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying: The former senator wants to heal the America he’s leaving behind."
Ross DouthatVictoria Chamberlin

Hosted by Ross Douthat

Produced by Victoria Chamberlin [excerpt]

Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast

From Mr. Douthat re Sasse/ 

Ukraine:
After the 2022 Russian invasion of  Ukraine, Sasse spoke in favor of expanding American military assistance to Ukraine, saying, "If [Ukraine] can shoot it, we should ship it."

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Sasse, who served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has criticized what he considered unnecessary roadblocks in supplying actionable intelligence to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, saying, "There are a bunch of technicalities about intelligence in general versus targeting information in particular. And we should be giving the Ukrainians all the intelligence we can possibly get them as fast as possible. It's way too lawyerly. We have a very limited window here."[113]

Sasse does not support direct U.S. military intervention in the conflict, saying, "We don't need to have fighter pilots in the air, we don't need to have boots on the ground inside Ukraine, because Ukrainians have the will to fight. We need to have the will to rearm them constantly."[114]


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