This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchew with my colleague Gregory Copley of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

The phone call between the President of the United States and the President of the Russian Federation,

much attention over the weekend.

10 a.m. East Coast time.

Speaking for two hours, we're told, in the readouts. The readouts have

different emphases, but it comes to this. Mr. Trump did not insist that Mr. Putin stopped the

war, did not insist that Mr. Putin enforce a ceasefire, did not, in fact, threaten sanctions

whatsoever. We're told in the readouts.

That's what we're told.

In fact, we're told in the readouts that most of the two hours was devoted to Mr.

Trump speculating about investing in Russia.

Gregory, it made me smile because I've been reading Roman history again, especially the

fifth century.

As we all know, there was a retreat from the frontiers because the barbarian showed up.

But the biggest barbarian involved was no barbarian.

He was a very shrewd businessman.

His name was Attila.

He came from the Hungarian plane, and the Romans couldn't defeat him.

He was too good.

The horsemen were savage. They

would show up at a city and the city would pay them everything just to go away. Or you'd lose

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