Hello and welcome once again to the Roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors

podcast here at The American Mind.

I'm your host, Spencer Claven, associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books and

trilateral menswear editor of the American mind.

I'm joined this week by the sniggering crowd you hear in the background snorting and

chortling along who are already off to a good start.

Ryan Williams, publisher and president, Mike Sabo, managing editor and Matthew Peterson, our now semi-regular guest and editor-in-chief

at The Blaze. So we're going to have to start off, I think, this week with Russia,

Russia, Russia, because it's all anybody's talking about. It's why I know the word trilateral hereafter

abbreviated to trilat, one of those terms that everyone on Twitter suddenly learned overnight.

It's what you get if you start working out six days a week, the trilat.

You've literally, do you are do you, are you looking at my

Twitter drafts, Ryan? I literally have a tweet queued up that says tri-lat, buy lat. I'm just working

on my lat. That's to come. Well, Trump seems to suddenly have his eye on the prize when it

comes to peace between Russia and Ukraine.

He's moved very rapidly in the last couple of weeks on this.

Not that it hasn't been a concern and an agenda item, but we've really gotten a lot of motion.

Here is a list of things that have happened and the reasons why they mean Trump is bad,

according to the press. He had a meeting in Alaska on this past Friday with Putin of Russia.

They then gave a little sort of joint address in which both of them said it went well. They didn't give too much more

information and there are, there's a lot of kind of behind the scenes kind of operating going on,

I think, on both of their parts, which we can get into. This is bad, according to the press,

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