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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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We've solved seven wars, seven wars, wars that were unsolvable, wars that couldn't be negotiated or done. We've done, the U.S. has done seven of them.

The one that I thought would be easiest would be because of my relationship with President Putin,

but he's let me down. He's really let me down. It was going to be Russia and Ukraine,

but we'll see how that turns out. Yeah, what's the next step on that? I'd love to know that's Donald Trump. He is standing

right next to Carr Sturmer, the Prime Minister of Great Britain right now, and they're doing

a press conference as Trump is over in England, and we thought we would talk to Jim Tankersly

and welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty show.

He knows a lot about what's going on with European politics. He's the Berlin Bureau Chief for the New York Times. Jim Tankersley, welcome back. How are you? Hey, my pleasure to be back. I'm doing great. Any news out of Great Brittany you think is worth talking about to start off with? I mean, I think what we just heard the president talking about is what he's been saying for a while. He really did think that this conflict was going to be a lot easier to

broker a peace deal on. He keeps expressing varying degrees of annoyance with Vladimir Putin

for not coming to the table and and

and broken a deal. But he's also not, you didn't hear him say any new big things that

he's going to do to put the pressure on. So I think what we're hearing from, from President

Trump is what a lot of Europe has been kind of hearing and a little bit wary about for weeks and months now,

which is kind of just like the status quo. We're just kind of hoping this is going to get better,

and we're not sure how it's going to happen. Okay, well, that's really interesting. I want to ask you this.

One of my favorite statements of the last couple of months is that guy from Poland, Tusk, who said, why do we need, why do we the 500 million need the 340 million of

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