Hi everyone and welcome. I am joined today by Alexander Mercuris and Professor John

Meersheimer to discuss Trump the peacemaker because well there's a lot of parts of the world

where he would like to make peace. We'll see what we have time for but let's's start with Ukraine, I thought, because the negotiations do not appear to go exactly as many had hoped.

Also, it's a bit doubtful whether or not Russia can get what it wants in negotiations.

If it doesn't achieve what it wants in negotiations,

will the war simply continue?

Is it possible even for Russia to get a decisive victory?

And if not, how is this going to play out?

Again, in the midst of some of the optimism to end the war, it seems as if there's

a lot of possible problems which could pop up.

But if you first look at this proposal from the United States with this general ceasefire,

again, it's been a while since this was pushed aside by the Russians, which was, I guess, fair enough,

none of the problems were addressed or resolved, such as NATO expansion.

But, sorry, where do we go from here?

What is happening with the negotiations?

Because we've had the meetings now in Saudi Arabia.

The US appears to believe that the Russians are dragging their feet,

while the Russians seems to think that the US is trying to pull a fast one on them.

So, well, what can we make of these deals?

Are they a progress or what was achieved with the energy infrastructure, the Black Sea navigation?

Where do you see this going?

I know, yeah, Alexandra has spoken about this already a bit in, well, we've spoken at least about it, but I'm very eager to hear what both of you think about these negotiations.

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