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2025-11-16 News & Politics
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Kinzinger Proposes $2 Billion/Day Plan to Fund Ukraine Using Seized Russian Assets

Adam Kinzinger details an aggressive, dual-incentive financial strategy designed to compel Putin to end the war in Ukraine immediately, while also analyzing the deepening erosion of Congressional independence and accountability concerning Trump's actions.

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  • New Ukraine Strategy: Propose releasing $2 billion daily in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine contingent on Putin immediately ceasing hostilities.
  • Accountability Crisis: Detail how Trump’s surge in pardons and financial dealings (like the Qatar jet deal) signal a complete breach of democratic guardrails.
  • Congressional Failure: Analyze why members of Congress, even those leaving office, remain silent, linking silence to future financial incentives (the "partisan corrupt economy"). This discussion pivots from immediate, creative geopolitical solutions to the systemic rot in Washington, DC. Kinzinger argues that only dramatically increasing the cost of the war—using Russia's own frozen wealth—will force Putin's hand, contrasting this with the current paralysis in US politics where personal financial gain silences accountability.

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Adam Kinzinger joins John Avlon to talk about the Epstein emails, Trump’s pardon spree, the collapse of Congress’s independence, and why redistricting is turning into a political arms race. Kinzinger also explains his plan to force Putin to end the war in Ukraine by using Russia’s own frozen assets against him. The Last Republican https://www.amazon.com/Last-Republican-Steve-Pink/dp/B0FSBZFSP9 How to Make Putin Pay: The $2 Billion-a-Day Plan That Could End the War https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/how-to-make-putin-pay-the-2-billion The Trump–Epstein Relationship: What We Know & Why Republicans Won’t Address It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMs7ILQ_n2Q Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@dave0x 2025-11-16

Americans criticising Ukraine about corruption is laughable at this point

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@jacquelynwilliams4723 2025-11-16

Kinzinger is what the Republican Party should be. I'm no Republican, but this is a man with integrity. My father was a WWII vet and a Republican. We didn't agree about politics, but we had values in common. It would be great to see more Republicans like Kinzinger.

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@hrvojesvetec3058 2025-11-16

Agree we Europeans must realease that money to help Ukrainians WIN...Putin and Russians already "accepted" that frozen assets are GONE and they will NEVER get them back.

98 4 replies
@nunofyrbusiness8576 2025-11-16

Keep the US out of the administration of the money. Trump would find a way to steal it for himself

64 2 replies
@shellysalazar7080 2025-11-16

Love you Adam! Thank you!!! ❤🇺🇸❤️

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@ProtectDemocracyUS2UKRAINE 2025-11-16

Love Adam. Thank you for your service then and now. American hero.

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@MrPilotflyby 2025-11-16

Ukraine must be made whole before Russia gets a single ruble!

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@SuperRisch 2025-11-18

I can listen to Adam all day, he speaks the truth that we don't hear often.. He is a true American 👍

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@penelopewarren3168 2025-11-22

I hope there will come a time when Adam Kinzinger runs for public office again. We need a Congress full of people like him.

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@0The0Web0 2025-11-16

That is a good plan with the frozen Russian money. Should do that asap.

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