robably just was cost cutting.

And then she said that Trump has disbanded key U.S. counterintelligence units, eliminated the FBI's foreign influence task force which investigated secret foreign lobbying by adversaries such as Russia. Okay, so it's something that affects all of our other adversaries and also our allies because they always try to influence us too. So it was a general rule. But Rachel's like, that looks like that's for Putin. So almost anything that Trump does you can make an argument, but indirectly, indirectly that looks like that's for Putin. So it's the most boring and academic and ridiculous list, but it's good enough for her audience who are, as you know, all idiots.

Here's one we don't know why yet, but Pete Hegseth has ordered a pause in U.S. cyber offensive against Russia according to the BBC. So the U.S. just stopped doing offensive cyber attacks on Russia, to which I say, now that doesn't mean they stopped doing defensive stuff of course, but why would you stop offensive cyber attacks? Well, if I were getting ready to negotiate peace I would show them that we were capable of doing that. I wouldn't wait forever. You know, we're not going to wait forever for Russia to sign a deal. But one of the things that Trump is good at is bringing new variables into a negotiation. So suddenly cyber attacks are on the table.

And then separately there's a report that Russia has been asked to help communicate with Iran to work out a nuclear, some kind of a nonproliferation or something about their nuclear program. But the idea is that Russia would be a productive partner in negotiating with Iran because they have a better relationship. To which I say that doesn't sound crazy.

So we don't know enough about the pause in the U.S. cyber offensive, but if it's just a pause and we're just showing that we can do it and we're trying to bring Russia into a more productive conversation about different parts of the world and how can you help us and maybe we can work together and maybe we can make some money, I don't know. I think you have to look at the entire universe of things that are happening to figure out whether there's any room for a deal. If all you're looking at is ceasefire yes or no ceasefire, well you're not going to know anything. You have to look at all the moving parts and say to yourself, all right, is that enough moving parts where there's stuff we can give without costing anything and there's stuff they can give us without costing anything? And probably there's going to be a whole bunch of variables that allow us to do that. So yeah, the more variables that Trump puts into the deal, the more success it will be I think anyway. And we