I'm John Batchel with Gregory Copley, my colleague, watching the strategic challenges of several wars now in a pause or near-paws state.

Ukraine is a hot war, given that it's over to drones and missiles coming in from Russians.

Very little movement on the front line, but Russia does have resources to wear down

Argentina eventually.

At the same time, there are said to be peace negotiations, and the most recent updating on this,

is that the Secretary of State,

Mr. Rubio, was in Florida over the weekend talking to Ukraine. Now, Steve Whitkoff, the president's

envoy, and Jared Kushner, also the president's envoy, are either on their way to Moscow or in Moscow

to talk with the leadership there, I believe Lavrov,

the foreign minister, but certainly Vladimir Putin is involved in this as well.

Gregory, the reason I hesitate here is that there is a history of dealing with Russia,

whether it's the Soviet Union or Russia, dating back to the beginning of the American Republic.

John Quincy Adams was an ambassador to the court of Catherine the Great once by the time in

Petersburg. The Russians are a civilization of a thousand years older than the U.S. at least.

We're dealing with another assumption than in the American way of what's in it for us.

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Your measure of negotiating with Putin, if it's the same as Stalin, they don't move from their initial position. Is that correct, Gregory?

I wouldn't say that's, you know, 100% correct, but you can say that they have a consistency of a position, mostly dictated by

history and geography so that they know where they can and can't move. So that's the bottom

line there. So they appear consistent and the US might say stubborn about their geopolitical and strategic objectives.

But the way that most people view the United States is that it is inconsistent in its

views and that you get an entirely new United States every four years or every eight years

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