All right, Alexander, let's talk about the latest developments between Whitkoff and Putin

and the meeting between Trump and Putin, which has now been confirmed by Uschikov, the

presidential aid.

And the United States, they claimed yesterday that the meeting, the request

for a meeting with Putin and Trump, a bilateral meeting was made by the Russians.

Ushikov today has claimed that it was the U.S.

that requested the bilateral meeting between Trump and Putin.

And yesterday, Trump and his administration,

as well as the media leaking to the media, they also suggested that after the bilateral meeting, we will be getting a trilateral meeting, Zelensky,

Trump, and Putin. Today, Ushikov said that that is not in the cards just yet. Actually, the Russians didn't even

comment on this. They said the United States suggested it. They didn't comment. And Uschakoff

pretty much said, let's first do the bilateral meeting. And then we'll see. That was pretty

much his message. Anyway, your thoughts on a very busy couple of days of

diplomacy. Indeed, absolutely. Well, I think this explains why Wickoff was sent to Moscow,

because it's become obvious, I think, now, both in retrospect. And by the way, we mentioned this

in several programs, both programs that we each did on our

channels and in programs we did together on the Duran.

It's obvious that one of the things that's been happening over the last couple of weeks

is that Trump is getting more and more frustrated, not just that he's not getting an

agreement with the Russians to end the war and freeze the conflict and to do all of the things

that he wants to do, but that he's not getting Putin's attention. And this kind of escalation

we've been seeing over the last couple of weeks, the threats of sanctions, the threats of tariffs, the threats of tariffs against trading partners of Russia, all of that was, at least in part, I suspect, an attempt to get Putin's attention. And it seems to be very important for Trump that he not only gets attention,

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