Show Notes: Fat In Black

Ukraine Now Has The Cards?

If this means we're out of the Ukraine boondoggle business, great.

If it means anything else....not. pic.twitter.com/VS0ZqIRZZB

— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) September 23, 2025

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-un-amb-mike-waltz-comes-out-swinging-will-defend-every-inch-nato-territory-against

It was only days ago that new US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz was belatedly confirmed by the Senate, in a drawn-out and somewhat embarrassing ordeal which took six months. Waltz took his seat at the UN Security Council for the first time Monday, and already came out swinging with anti-Russian sentiment, and appearing to side with the hawks in NATO.

“The United States stands by our NATO allies in the face of these airspace violations,” Waltz said. “And I want to take this first opportunity to repeat and to emphasize the United States and our allies will defend every inch of NATO territory.”

While Waltz’s warnings can be seen as hawkish, in his prior national security advisory position, he expressed Trump’s vision that Ukraine will never be in NATO. For example, last spring:

National security adviser Mike Waltz said on Sunday the U.S. does “not see Ukraine being a member of NATO.”

“One thing is clear, we do not see Ukraine being a member of NATO, because that would automatically drag U.S. troops in,” Waltz told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”