id. I think it's kind of obvious at this point. He says quote one thing that I'm pretty much convinced of is that Trump will not go back to Congress for more appropriations to fund Ukraine's war or its military or whatever one wants to call it. I agree.

So Trump did a big truth post about Zelensky not wanting to give up Crimea in order for peace. And Trump explained in his post that Crimea is a major Russian submarine base. So he's explaining why that's not really in play. Apparently it's mostly ethnic Russians. I don't know if Trump said that but that's what I knew. So Crimea is mostly ethnic Russians. How much do they want to be in Ukraine? I don't know. I'm not sure if we can tell. But don't you think that the people who are mostly ethnic Russians would be probably just as happy being part of Russia because it's not like Ukraine is the country where everything works well. It's the most corrupt country in the world. So I don't know. The fact that they're mostly ethnic Russians suggests to me anyway, and I'm no expert, I have not visited there, but it suggests to me that they probably would be happier with Russia control.

And I guess Zelensky may have thought that he was being asked to recognize Crimea as Russian owned. And Trump is telling him nobody's asking you to do that. The United States might. The United States might agree to recognize Crimea as part of Russia but he's not asking Ukraine to do it. So that's worth something. And he calls Zelensky the man with no cards to play and he says he should close this deal right away. Yes he should.

Now at the same time I think last night Russia bombed Kiev and killed several people and it was a pretty bad attack. And Trump did a separate truth telling Vladimir what the hell are you doing? Stop homie we're trying to work out a deal here. It was kind of weirdly personal. Even though he did it in public. What are you doing? Stop bombing Kiev. We're so close to a deal. It's crazy. So we'll see if that works.

According to Politico. All right here's a test of your fake news nose sniffer. Let's see if you can spot the BS here. According to Politico the White House is debating lifting sanctions on Russian energy assets and the Nord Stream. Now that sounds believable right? Because there's negotiations about our interaction with Russia and our interaction with Ukraine. And you could imagine that Russia would ask for those sanctions to be lifted. So it wouldn't be a big surprise if the White House was debating whether they should do it or not. So that sounds like it could be true right?

Well according to Marco Rubio who would certainly know what's true or not in that domain he said in a post on X this is unequivocally false. But listen to the specificity of how he debunks it. It's a little too specific. The report is that the White House is debating it. So that's the report. When he debunks it he says this. Neither Steve Witkoff nor I have had any conversations about lifting sanctions against Russia as part of a deal with Ukraine. Huh. Well that's not exactly what Politico said is it? Politico said the White House. The White House is a lot of different people including the president. But in the debunking of it Rubio says only two people, Steve Witkoff and Rubio. Now that might be 100% true that neither he nor Witkoff have had any conversations about it. But does that mean there's nobody in the White House who's debating that? It seems like his denial or his debunking is a little too specific. And he says this is journalistic malpractice. If Politico has an ounce of integrity they'll retract this fiction. Okay. I'm going to say that that's the sort of thing you would expect people in the White House to be debating but if what Rubio is saying is that the people who are critical to that question are not talking about it it does mean something. So it's not nothing but that's a very specific denial. That's usually a key that there's a little something left out.

According to the Daily Mail, I didn't even know this but apparently China and Russia are getting quite cozy with their space programs. And now there are plans that China and Russia would build a nuclear power plant on the moon to power their mining and their laboratories and god knows what else they put up there. Probably military stuff. But I'll tell you if you didn't think there was going to be a war in space I hate to tell you there's going to be war in space. Yeah war in space feels just guaranteed. It might start sm