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U.S. change in tone may not be to Ukraine's benefit.

And it's about how difficult it is to end the ukraine war

now that we're in the middle of it despite all of donald trump's promises seems to me ted like

he just was inaugurated right at the wrong time for this particular task huh yeah i mean i think

i think that i think that he thought it was going to be easier than it was. I think that he came in and that the kind of view was that the states could kind of tell Russia and Ukraine, we want a ceasefire. If Ukraine says no, then you cut off military aid. If Russia says no, then you ramp up, you know, weapons to Ukraine.

I think part of maybe what they didn't consider other than it wasn't that easy is what do you do if both are reluctant?

If both have kind of red lines and you can't, you know, you can't do both at the same time.

And that's kind of the situation we're in is that

they both had red lines. There's no clear way to do one or the other. And so they're stuck in

this kind of situation where everybody has different goals. I think Trump put forward his sort of

final offer. And Ukraine has not accepted that final offer and now they're in a position where they need to

decide whether they're going to try to force the two sides to further negotiate that final offer

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