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The split of NATO, the loss of Ukraine and the rule of dictators on the world stage are predicted by the leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke to reporters after meeting with President Biden and other Congressional leaders at the White House.

"There was a kind of consensus in that room that Zelensky and Ukraine will lose the war if we don't get them the arms quickly," Schumer shared.

"This was so, so important," the Senate Majority Leader said. "And that we couldn't afford to wait a month, two months, or three months because we would in all likelihood lose the war."

"NATO would be fractured at best," Schumer continued.

"Allies would turn away from the United States. And the boldest leaders, the boldest autocrats of the world, the Putins, the Xis, the presidents of North Carolina -- North Korea -- i like the governor of North Carolina actually -- the presidents of North Korea and Iran would be emboldened thinking that the United States was this soft, fat country that lost its way and will take advantage."

"And so we said to the Speaker, get it done," Schumer sternly said. "I told him this is one of the moments -- I said I've been around here a long time. It's maybe four or five times that history is looking over your shoulder. And if you don't do the right thing, whatever the immediate politics are, you will regret it, I told him, two years from now and every year after that. Because really it's in his hands. It's in his hands.

We told him how important it was. It was passionate. I talked about my trip to Ukraine where I met soldiers who had Russian artillery in range with the drones, but not ammunition to fire at them."

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