Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump and Russia's military call-up.

Trump administration officials are starting to acknowledge that it's unlikely Trump will be able to achieve a quick resolution in Ukraine.

The administration is reportedly seeing a changing tone in internal deliberations.

You're starting to see articles saying that odds have dropped or odds have plummeted,

that Trump is able to push the two sides together to some durable peace or even a lasting ceasefire.

The odds of Trump being able to get Putin to agree to some long-term peace have not dropped.

They haven't changed at all.

It's just that the administration is starting to clearly see what the odds have always been.

Russia's deputy foreign minister said,

We take the models and solutions proposed by the Americans very seriously,

but we can't accept it all in its current form.

As far as we can see, there is no place in them today for our main demand,

namely to solve the problems related to the root causes of this conflict.

It is completely absent, and that must be overcome. namely to solve the problems related to the root causes of this conflict.

It is completely absent, and that must be overcome.

Last week, Trump got, quote, very angry with Putin,

and it became clear that Trump might be getting handled by the former KGB handler.

I can't imagine how he feels now that news has broke, saying that Putin has just ordered the largest call-up of Russian forces during the war. In fact,

it looks like the largest call-up in about 15 years. Reports say that Putin is calling

up 160,000 men aged 18 to 30.

Russia drafts people twice a year, and Russian officials are saying the conscripts won't be sent to Ukraine.

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