It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

Well, it didn't take long.

It didn't take long for the peace process to start collapsing.

That sound you hear is the concrete crumbling,

really just within about 24 hours of Donald Trump's meeting with Zelensky and the Europeans.

And it's really made me wonder like why not I don't question anything that Putin does because I know he has no interest in peace.

I know he stalls for time. I know he likes to play Trump. I know he has no interest in peace. I know he stalls for time.

I know he likes to play Trump.

I know all of that.

But, you know, he did agree to certain things,

and that got everybody's hopes out.

The dueling summits, this is story one.

The dueling summits over the fate of Ukraine,

say that Putin has overplayed his hand. Imagine that. It attempting to woo the United States.

So says the Washington Post.

Putin's resistance to compromise and has potentially misplaced confidence in a military victory

over Ukraine risked missing the chance to capitalize on his warm vibe with President Trump

while dragging out a war that is killing thousands every week

and undermining Russia's economy and its global strategic position.

Russia has continued to throw obstacles in the way of any measures

recommended to advance the process.

Sergei Lavrov making clear yesterday Russian expects to have a veto over any security arrangements

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