Rep. Smith: Trump Wants to Take Us Back to a ‘Brutally Competitive World’ that Ends in Disaster

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Velshi: “Yeah. So there’s this obsession Donald Trump has with getting paid back. Now that misses a lot of the point. And that is much of the aid we give Ukraine is spent in the United States, its armaments, its foundries that are working 24 hours to provide the stuff.”

Smith: “That. Actually that. Point aside, what we get back is. We get what you just described. We got 80 years of peace. Yes, yes. That’s the more important There’s this perception. That we have. Been so just. Benevolent to the people of Europe. Look, we. Are the richest. Most powerful nation in. The history of the world. And a big part of that is. What you said. We have. Stopped world. Wars from happening. Of course. We have. Gotten such a return. On. Our investment in Europe that you. Just wouldn’t believe. And if We. Pull that out and take. Us Back to the 19th. Century world. That Trump envisions, which. Is nation states fighting. Each other, we. Saw how that came out. In. World war one and world war two and decided, let’s try something different. Trump wants to take us back. To that brutally. Might makes. Right competitive world that ends. In disaster.”