"Maybe NATO will dissolve, and that's OK, not the worst thing in the world."
-- Trump, July 2017

"In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO. And I think Putin was waiting for that."
-- John Bolton, Trump National Security Adviser

"The way the battle is going shows we are fighting neo-Nazis."
-- Putin

"[Reports of] ongoing air strikes of Kyiv and other large cities are gross propaganda."
-- Putin to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

"I do, because they're seeing how stupid the United States is run. They're seeing that our leaders are incompetent. Of course they're going to do it. This is their time."
-- Trump, asked if he thinks China will invade Taiwan soon

"It might be time for Joe Biden to let us know what Kentaji [sic] Brown Jackson's LSAT score was. Wonder how she did on the LSATs? Why won't he tell us that."
-- Fox host Tucker Carlson

"Most of us have friends and family in Russia and Ukraine. I look at both as one family and really believe it is an outside entity spending huge sums of money on propaganda to provoke the two countries to be at odds with each other."
-- actor and dual citizen Steven Seagal

"If [Putin] wants to kill himself, he doesn't need to use nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945."
-- Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukrainian Abassador to the UN

"Why is it disloyal to side with Russia, but loyal to side with Ukraine?...I think we should probably take the side of Russia, if we have to choose...And why shouldn't I root for Russia?...Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America's foreign policy."
-- Fox host Tucker Carlson, last week

"He sees the weakness and stupidity of [the Biden] administration."
-- Trump on Vladimir Putin

"Pu-tin! Pu-tin!"
-- chant by crowd at white supremacist rally, at urging of host Nick Fuentes, shortly before he introduced "surprise guest" Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

"This gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis who occupied Kyiv and took the entire Ukrainian people hostage."
-- Putin on Zelensky government

"Ukraine isn't a democracy. It's a State Department client state."
-- Fox Host Tucker Carlson

"Ukraine's not even a country. It's kind of a concept...It's just a corrupt area that the Clintons turned into a colony where they can steal money out of."
-- Steve Bannon

"Because of a rigged election in the United States."
-- Trump, explaining the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Fox

"He's taking over a country for two dollars worth of sanctions. I'd say that's pretty smart."
-- Trump on Putin