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Well, everybody needs to know a little bit of context here.

And the hours leading up to the Alaska summit with President Trump and Vladimir Putin,

Ukraine was, you know, bombing the night before up to, you know, like 12 hours before the actual summit took place.

And Vladimir Putin immediately thereafter.

The war, they never, the ceasefire was never really one of the top priorities of the president.

And he pointed that out in every other agreement he's been involved in from India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, Rwanda, Congo, Serbia, Thailand, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, and Egypt.

You know, they never had the ceasefire first. He said his goal was going in to have the

second meeting. And it looks like it's going to happen, but I don't know that it's going to

happen. I mean, at the end of the day, Donald Trump can only do so much. I don't think there's

any other world leader that had the stature, the strength, Donald Trump can only do so much. I don't think there's any other world leader

that had the stature, the strength, the ability to pull off what he's pulled off so far,

bringing Vladimir Putin to the table. I think he did it from a position of strength.

I think by strengthening NATO nations commitments to NATO played a big part in it, and they more than doubled their

percentage of GDP that they will contribute to their defense. I think getting the European

Union to wake the hell up. I went into great specificity in detail on this last night.

It's so frustrating on so many levels to watch the Europeans be so stupid

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