Erik Prince: The U.S. can't shoot down Russia’s Mach 9 hypersonic missiles

Erik Prince: There’s no good outcome to this war. It needs to de-escalate and be done. There’s no chance that Ukraine is going to retake its land, the Donetsk, the Luhansk, the areas in the east, certainly not the Crimea.

It’s been a fool’s errand for the last year and a half, and all we’re doing is wiping out the next generations of Ukrainian men, and Russian men, for that matter.

Imagine if there was this border clash with Mexico, and there were Russian-provided weapons being fired inside the United States. There’s no way we would tolerate that. This needs to be wound down soon. I really hope President Trump can get on it literally from day one. I wish they could do pre-meetings, but even the way the Democrats pulled the whole Russiagate nonsense in 2016, I’m sure the Trump administration is hesitant to have that level of contact, but they need to because clearly Biden, is not ready to run for President again, not mentally up to the job. And clearly, Kamala Harris is not up to the job. This needs to be brought to an end by adults. Enough.

Maria Bartiromo: Why was Biden doing what he did, authorizing these long-range missiles, while he’s almost out the door?

Erik Prince: To me, it’s like a drowning man grabbing at any rope that might be available to them thinking that it might somehow push the Russians to play nicer or something. There is really no practical reason.

The fact is, the Russians fired a ballistic missile that carried nine warheads going Mach 9, that there is no means to shoot down. And even with non-nuclear, the kinetic force is enormous, and those could have just as easily… It was a reminder by the Russians, We can smack you anywhere with nukes, and maybe that’s what’s coming next. This is not a game that needs to be played any longer. It is grossly irresponsible.