o Zelensky had a conversation with Trump in which Zelensky said it was their most productive conversation yet and he says that Trump is very unhappy with Putin and Trump has said the same thing. But Trump has also said recently that Putin does not want to work toward a ceasefire deal.

All right. So now Trump has a lot of credibility and ego and I guess reputational risk if he can't get the Ukraine situation sorted out and reasonably soon. If he waits till the end of his four years, it's not going to be nearly as impressive because you're just going to say, well, they just got tired of fighting. But what levers does he have left? Because it seems obvious at this point that Putin thinks he's winning and is right because he's still capturing territory and doesn't have any reason to stop. He's just going to keep going.

What possible leverage does Trump have? He's already starving Ukraine of weapons because the US needs them too. And we don't have enough weapons. I don't know which ones, but things like anti-rocket missiles and stuff we need for the United States to protect our own assets. So what is Trump going to do? Is Trump going to go wildly sending them new weapons or is Trump going to put extra super-duper sanctions on Russia? And I'm always surprised. It's like, is there some sanction we haven't put on them yet? Have we really been involved in a war for years and there were sanctions we could have put on Russia that for some reason we didn't? I don't know what's left.

So if you were to look at this as any other president, if it were not Trump, you would say there are no levers. The war is going to keep going until Russia owns all of Ukraine. I mean that would be the obvious direction it's going. But when you're talking about Trump, suddenly all bets are off because he does have that magic ability to find the one solution that nobody was even talking about as a solution. You know, something that's so far out of the box that you never even thought of it.

Now, can he pull the rabbit out of the hat with this? Is there something he could do or promise or negotiate that would get Putin to back down? I don't see it, but it will be very fun to see if he can pull that rabbit out of a hat. So the fact that I don't see any way he can do it probably doesn't predict that he can or can't do it. That would just be my own limitation.

And that, ladies and gentlemen,