I don't want to be too militarist about it, but they had a mild start to the winter in

Ukraine, so the ground was mushy.

And so I think he needed a couple more weeks to make sure it gets nice and hard before

he has all his options in front of him, frozen hard, solid ground so that your armor can

roll as quickly as it can.

The weather is just one of many unknowns when trying to predict what Russia's Vladimir

Putin will do next.

Right now, Putin's troops are virtually surrounding Ukraine, and they seem poised to move in, in

case diplomacy fails.

I believe that's what happens when you let a bunch of baby boomers run the world.

To understand the political war game here, I want to get inside two boomers' heads,

Biden's and Putin's.

So it was 25 years in the foreign service.

I called the former ambassador to NATO, and in 2017, 2019 was you a special representative

for Ukraine negotiations.

Kurt Volker.

There is a worst-case scenario, but there are plenty of other bad scenarios as well too,

so we can't just focus on the worst-case one.

Plus, you go to Russia.

I feel sorry for my brothers, the Ukrainians.

We love them.

You know what's going on, at the end of the world, you see how people talk to each other?

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