Hi everyone and welcome. My name is Glenn Dissen, and I'm joined today by Alexander McCurris and

Ambassador Chas Freeman, who was also a former Assistant Secretary of Defense. And I thought

what I really wanted to discuss with two of you today is Trump's return to the presidency.

This is, of course, a very different world he is seeing as he comes back after four years.

I think usually in the final weeks of an outgoing government, there are some efforts to assist

the new government which is coming in as a smooth transition.

But it appears the Biden administration has tried to disrupt, I guess,

some of Trump's objectives, especially towards the Russians,

by escalating the war and pushing new sanctions.

In addition, I guess Trump is also being left with a genocide in Palestine and also Syria,

which is now run by a Western-backed jihadists.

So it's a very different world.

But I thought maybe you can start with Ukraine because I guess this is the area where there's perhaps some reason for optimism,

given that he recognizes some of the mistakes or NATO's role in starting this war,

even though he's blaming it, of course, on Biden.

But is there any possibility? Do you see any summit coming?

How do you view this scenario, Ambassador Freeman?

I think Trump is working on a summit with Putin.

And I think it is very important to note that unlike the Biden administration,

which for four years did not communicate at all

with the Russians except on the battlefield, Trump is prepared to talk. In fact, he wants to talk.

I'm not sure he will like what he hears in response, but at any rate, this is a big change

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