y Problems or the Imaginary Policies or something like that. The word "concerns" is what made this viral. So that's actually the active word. So if you didn't understand persuasion you would say concerns is too generic or it's off point or something. If you do understand it you know that that's the word that sold it. When you see concerns it tells you that somebody's concerned as opposed to it's a problem or anything in the real world. And it's a non-standard word in this domain. You wouldn't expect to see the word concerns in the name or title of a department. So it's the mistake, or isn't the mistake, that makes it viral. So that's what made it sticky.

Meanwhile Zelensky is self-isolating. So he launched, according to the National Pulse, Christopher Tomlinson, he's attacking Trump's team. And he said the following stuff. He said that Europe unlike the United States has discipline and no chaos. Chaos? Who says the United States has chaos? Democrats, right? Have you ever heard a Republican say oh we got a bunch of chaos? Nope. It's just a Democrat thing. And now Zelensky is taking that approach. And he says Europe good, U.S. chaos. And then he accused Witkoff. He said I can't be ungrateful to the Americans for everything they did but they are often unfortunately under the influence of Russian narratives. And then he went off on Witkoff and he says he doesn't look like a military man. He doesn't look like a general and he doesn't have such experience. As far as I know he is very good at selling and buying real estate and this is a little different.

Well, Zelensky, good luck because America's out. You just made it impossible to get peace in Ukraine with America's help. Apparently he really wants a permanent war and Europe's on his team. And I say good luck guys. Good luck. You can fight Russia all day long but there's no freaking way after you've insulted Witkoff and Trump that you're going to get what you want from the United States. You just closed that door, you idiot. Or maybe he knows exactly what he's doing but there's no reason for us to be involved anymore. He made it easy to walk away.

And then he said that he's rejecting any idea for a peace deal that would not involve Russia giving back all the territory that they've conquered including Crimea. Now given that we know there's no way that's ever going to happen, has he just slammed the door shut on any kind of a peace deal and America being productive in any of it? He has. The door's shut. So I don't care what the news is tomorrow or the next day. I don't care if he changes his mind. I don't care if he apologizes. It's over. I'm going to call it. We're out. Now the United States has not said that. Trump has not said that. I don't think he's commented exactly. But I feel pretty confident that this just ended the productive relationship with the United States of Ukraine. We're definitely not going to be helping them defend themselves at this point. Now something could change I suppose but I think we're done.

But at the same time, and this is fascinating, Jack Posobiec of Human Events was talking to Scott Bessent and Scott Bessent says that they've got a 100-page Ukraine deal about the minerals, not about peace but about minerals, that he hopes will get signed next week. Now it is possible that we could make a mineral deal. It's not impossible because the mineral deal would not be promising anything about security. It would just be a way for them to make money and for us to make money. So they might say yes to making money because they need money to fight their war. And from our perspective it might give them a little, what, Bessent, not a security guarantee but it is an economic security pact. Now I'm not so sure the United States would want to get involved in some place that didn't have good defense against Russia coming in and taking the rest of the country. So I don't know if we can actually get private companies to do the work because that would be a pretty big risk. But if it works that'd be great. But I think in terms of the U.S. funding Ukraine's military adventure, I think that's over. I think we're done with that.

Meanwhile the Greenland trip is getting spicy. You knew that JD Vance and his wife were going over there but here's the funny part. Apparently Mike Waltz was always intended to be part of the trip but they had forgotten about him when they did the notice. So National Security Advisor Mike Waltz will also be attending the trip. All I can hope is they don't accidentally invite Jeffrey Goldberg on the trip. That's a callback. Yeah, okay. Can you imagine them being on the plane and they look over and it's like oh my God and Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally invited on the trip.

All right, that's all I got for you. Thanks for putting up with me. That's all I've got for today. I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately for a minute. The rest of you make sure you come back tomorrow, same time, same place. We'll have some more fun. So if you're on X or Rumble or YouTube, I appreciate you joining and I'll see you tomorrow. Locals, I'll be coming at you privately.