President Donald Trump’s moves to balance the costs of funding arms for Ukraine in its ongoing fight against Russia and helping Israel battle Hamas are “actually linked,” U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Lt. Col. Eric Navarro, the Director of Military and Strategy Programs for the Middle East Forum, commented Sunday on Newsmax.

“There was a recent Wall Street Journal report talking about the high cost of funding Israel’s defense during the 12-day war with Iran, the missiles, the other interceptors,” Navarro told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “There was also a New York Times story talking about the high cost of our campaign against the Houthis. All of that’s interrelated.”

But if the United States can get European nations to pay for its arms to be delivered to Ukraine, “that could help us reindustrialize or restock our stockpiles and then support Israel in its continuing fight throughout all of the Middle East.”

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