ey stranger, what would you do to end the war in Ukraine? Almost everybody would say, well, you know, Zelensky is going to need to get flexible about losing some land. Russia is probably going to keep what they've already gotten. And probably the only way the war ends is if Ukraine makes some kind of commitment not to join NATO. Right? Yeah, you and I could have done that. And it looks like that's exactly what's going to happen, is that there will be a land-for-peace deal. Probably. We don't know any details yet, so we're just speculating still.

And of course there's no way the NATO thing can stick. They're going to have to back off on that. But as you know, Scott Bessent was sent over there, Treasury headed the Treasury to work on a deal where America would benefit from the mineral resources of Ukraine and sort of pay it back. But my understanding is, just before I went live today, I believe that Ukraine backed out. So I think they got talked out of giving up their minerals. So I don't know who talked them out of it, but as of now they're negotiating and saying nope, no minerals.

What do you think Trump's going to say to Ukraine before he starts negotiating with Putin? Well, I don't know, but I think it's going to go something like this. If we do have access to your minerals, then you can guarantee that there'll be some American inte