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Search the economist and make sense of the world around you. Well, today was absolutely crazy. I don't know if you all saw that White House meeting

where Zelensky, Trump, Vance were discussing the war, actively having a negotiation, as it were,

and there are many minds about it. Of course, many liberal-leaning personalities say this is an

embarrassing moment for the United States. Vladimir Putin was the only winner. However, many on the right are saying

Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, was arrogant and dismissive of the concerns that J.D. Vance

and Donald Trump had, which is an insane strategy in a negotiation. Still, it's remarkable to see

this degree of conversation happening

in public. Trump even saying, the American people should see this. This, you know, I'm going to give

my opinion right away. I mean, Zelensky, it was shocking how he needed to be deferential to the

country that was providing him hundreds of billions of dollars to save itself. And he wasn't. He was argumentative. This could theoretically end the war well, not in their favor if the U.S.

just basically banished them. So we're going to talk about that. But we are at a special party,

and we are hanging out with a bunch of really great people. We we're gonna be discussing what exactly is going out the epstein files

because as you as you know yesterday there's this big hub up around

influencers who are given this binder in fact it's actually sitting right

here i'm not gonna hold it up because that is it that is a taboo all the

influence is holding it up

everybody was like you're taking selfies instead of breaking this news

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