Senator Van Hollen
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simply in payment of the support that we've already given, which we've given because they were a democratic country attacked by Putin and the Russian forces. I mean, can you imagine FDR in the middle of World War II saying to Churchill, you know, you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.
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That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin right now.
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But what they did in Munich with President Zelensky was primarily to bully them. Right. The secretary of Treasury handed him a piece of paper that essentially required Ukraine to hand over about 50 percent of its mineral reserves to the United States.