“And I should add that this is our fault, if we're Americans, because it's American policy to deny Ukraine the missile defense that it needs.”

“He realized Ukraine's data was on servers, could be wiped by a missile, and quickly partnered with AWS, Google, Microsoft to move it across the border into the cloud.”

“We do allow, I mean, we've just allowed other countries to license the construction of Patriots, which is the anti-missile system.”

“In my Pentagon work, I learned that when you launch a missile, you notify all the other countries, and they train their satellites on your missile launch, which is two reasons. One, they make sure that you did what you said, and second, they get to train their missile launch watcher.”

“We do allow Europeans to buy our systems and then pass them on to Ukraine... we’ve just allowed other countries to license the construction of Patriots”