Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) joined Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on his radio show on Thursday to discuss Ukraine, following President Donald Trump’s comments calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator.”

“There’s a faction within the Republican Party that does not want to finance its war anymore. And you know it,” Kilmeade began, adding:

I’m I, I believe that the Ukraine are the good guys in this. If they had their druthers, they would just be a westernized nation prospering the best they can with an imperfect democracy. It’s Russia that is the problem. But what do you do with people in your own party that said, I’m done with this?

“Well, I mean, I think there’s a there’s that strong sentiment out there. And of course, I hear it. And I think that, frankly, I don’t have any question about this. Putin and Russia are very clearly the aggressor in this conflict,” Thune replied, implicitly rejecting Trump’s comments earlier in the week that Ukraine “started” the war.

“There’s that– that’s just a fact. But I also think that at the end of the day, the U.S. support and assistance, much of which help rebuild our own industrial base here, our military industrial base, because a lot of the weaponry that we sell to or support the Ukrainians with is, you know, is creating jobs in this country, too,” Thune added, concluding:

But it also, I think, is probably limited in the end. I mean, there’s a there’s a place in where American support and the support of the American people is limited. And so that’s why I think it’s important that they try and wind this down, figure out a way to achieve an outcome that, you know, retains Ukraine’s sovereignty and and hopefully puts them and our European allies in the region in a better position relative to the aggressive posture the Russians take. And I think that’s what we all want to achieve.

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