Chris Sununu: If You Let Russia Walk Over Ukraine, It ‘Will Hit Home Very, Very Quickly’

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SUNUNU: "Well, let's walk through it. If you -- yes, so if you let Russia start -- come in and walk over Ukraine, you put all of Eastern Europe at risk. You put all of our NATO allies there at risk. And then, when a NATO ally is now at risk, now you really risk having to put potential American troops on the ground, which nobody wants to see and shouldn't happen. But if they're starting to go after NATO allies in Eastern Europe, now that's a much bigger problem. It sends a message to China, who wants to aggressively go after Taiwan, which create a vast majority of the technology that we need for our everyday lives, and then that puts our consumers at risk, it puts our manufacturers at risk. It puts our economy at risk if you allow that to happen. So, this will hit home very, very quickly. I have heard people say, well, no blank checks. And I agree with that. No blank checks. We're putting about $50 billion of support in Ukraine. Understand this; $50 billion to not put a single troop on the ground, potentially defeat and decimate the Russian army -- that's less than 10 percent of our defense appropriation in just a single year. I'm the most fiscally conservative governor in the country, and I'm telling you, that's a deal. That's a good effort of backing our play and backing our allies' play across the world."