State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about potential US operation of Ukrainian power plants.
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00:00I just want to go back to the statement about Ukraine, in which it is stated that American
00:10ownership of power plants within Ukraine would be a way of guaranteeing their protection.
00:17Is we talking about physical ownership, taking over ownership of the plants from Ukrainian
00:21authorities?
00:22Well, again, that comes from President Trump, who is one of the best businessmen we think
00:28has ever been around, and he knows how to make deals.
00:32And there is a serious consideration, in fact, that if you have an American-owned entity
00:39via a company, perhaps not certainly the government necessarily, that that creates, I think the
00:46presumption is, is that it creates a deterrent to strike, that you have also an economic
00:53partnership that increases the economic viability of a nation, the general, certainly infrastructure
01:01stability of a nation, when you have people running your infrastructure or in a particular
01:05part of the infrastructure who know what they're doing, and that maintains not just the economic
01:10framework but also the security framework because of the nature and the need for energy.
01:15It also is, I think it is, and I don't want to presume what President Trump was considering,
01:25but just as a regular person, you'd realize that it is probably somewhat beneficial to
01:31have an economic relationship with a nation that has a history of being able to protect
01:39itself and protect its friends and makes it a little bit more difficult to attack you
01:44because of what the results might be.