I'm John Batchew with my good colleague Bill Rajo, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

We come into the politics of the war, or ending the war, cease firing the war.

One headline will do for all, John.

This is London, the Times.

Trump expected to discuss canceling military aid to Ukraine.

I'll stop there.

What does that mean, John?

What happens without American aid?

Right.

So just to give some backster, I'm sure listeners are familiar with the tumultuous meeting that

happened on Friday, so I won't go into depth on that.

I think right now the Trump administration is, you know, A, feeling disrespected, and B, they think that Zelensky, you know, isn't really all that committed to peace.

I don't think its assessment there is quite right on either of those issues, but that's

their view of it.

And so I think the Trump administration is considering cutting aid to try to force Zelensky

back into talks on a ceasefire.

And from my perspective, probably not the best way to go. I think you would at best

sort of undermine actually the Trump administration's leverage to get a peace deal. And while I don't

suspect or I don't expect a cutoff of American aid would lead to a collapse of the Ukrainian front

by any means, you know, there is a risk that it could have, you know,

kind of a cascading effect on morale. And, you know, you could see, you know, Ukrainian forces

struggle increasingly to hold the front. So they might lose more land. And a big issue is, is

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