It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. With us now the Russian-American

journalist and Russia-U.S. Relations expert, Julia Yafi, founding partner and Washington correspondent

at Puck News. A lot of what she covers is on international affairs, so we'll get her take on

all this theater about Russia's war in Ukraine and what's real here and who's just posturing for whom.

She also writes about the Middle East, and we'll also talk about her article called

the coming Maga Israel Battle. You may be surprised who on the right in the Maga

Coalition has about had enough of Benjamin Netanyahu and some Israeli settlers at this point.

Julia also has a forthcoming book called Motherland, a feminist history of modern Russia from revolution to autocracy.

Julia, always good of you to come on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Hey, Brian. Thanks for having me.

Can I just start with a few short clips from that pretty remarkable joint appearance yesterday by President Trump

and the heads of state of France, Germany, Italy, the UK, all of those, and the European Commission.

I guess this clip is the headline, whether or not it's actually true. You'll tell me five seconds

of President Trump. President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine.

Julia, did President Putin agree to security guarantees for Ukraine?

Oh, we lost Julia's line?

All right, we'll get her back in a second.

Also at the White House, as we further set this up, the various European leaders tried to back up that idea of security guarantees for Ukraine.

Here's UK Prime Minister Kirstarmer.

When we talk about security, we're talking about the security not just of Ukraine.

We're talking about the security of Europe and the United Kingdom as well.

And that was really interesting because all the way over, all the way that far west from Russia

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