Monday, March 3, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 10:58)
A Showdown of Epic Diplomatic Proportions: President Trump and VP Vance Clash with Ukrainian President Zelensky

Part II (10:58 - 14:08)
‘President Zelensky, What is Your Plan?’ – The U.S. Presses Ukraine for Realism in Settlement Talks Between Ukraine and Russia

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos says opinion pages will defend free market and 'personal liberties' by The Washington Post (Laurie Kellman)

Part III (14:08 - 16:45)
President Trump’s Approach to Diplomacy: President Trump is Changing the Game on U.S. Foreign Policy – We Can Only Hope It is Effective

Part IV (16:45 - 25:03)
Bezos Indicates Major Shift at The Washington Post: The Editorial Pages of The Post Will Now Be Centered on Personal Liberties and Free Markets

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0:00.0	It's Monday, March 3rd, 2025. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.3	Well, rarely does diplomacy just explode on the front pages, but it was either a diplomacy or a lack of the same that landed the
0:22.0	headlines over the weekend. The Financial Times reported the headlines above the fold this way,
0:27.4	quote, Zelensky's White House talks break down in blaze of acrimony. The Los Angeles Times headline,
0:34.1	Trump and Vance berate Zelensky in heated Oval Office gathering.
0:38.4	The Associated Press headline, Trump trashing of Zelensky undoes weeks of diplomacy.
0:45.2	Now, to be clear, those headlines are justified. Something very big did happen Friday in the
0:50.6	Oval Office. And the talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the American
0:56.5	President Donald Trump did break down in acrimony. And it appeared to be a meeting that started positively.
1:04.2	And as a matter of fact, the White House and Ukraine had announced ahead of time that the expected
1:09.4	outcome of the conversation was going to be a
1:12.0	formal agreement between the United States and Ukraine concerning American access to mineral rights
1:18.4	in that nation after the war. Given America's investment in Ukraine, in its armed forces,
1:24.1	in its war against Russia, this was considered to be something quite legitimate,
1:29.2	quite necessary. But nonetheless, that agreement never got signed, and effectively, the Ukrainian
1:35.5	president was shown the door at the White House. What did happen in the full glare of live
1:40.5	television cameras in the Oval Office between that warm greeting and that very cold departure
1:46.0	will no doubt go down in American diplomatic history. We'll talk more about what it means for the
1:52.0	future of Ukraine and the future of Ukrainian American alliances and frankly the partnership
1:58.0	that also includes European nations, but we do need to recognize that
2:02.3	the key word diplomatic here plays a very big role. And that's because the profession of diplomacy
2:09.0	is a profession that has developed its own symbols, its own customs, its own forms of
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