Back to episode — Episode 2932 CWSA 08/19/25
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win because it would make a better story. Do you know what would make a great story with the ending of the Ukraine war? The great story would be that Trump came in office and ended all war everywhere on the planet. That's the best story. You can't get a better story. Now, given the power of that story and knowing that, you know, wars all have to end. Eventually, they have to end. That is a really…
← Previous segment →a better story than that. So, if I had to predict, I don't think it'll happen soon necessarily, but yeah, he'll get it done.
I guess Trump was caught on a hot mic talking to Macron and he said, quote, talking about Putin, he says, I think he wants to make a deal for me. You understand that? As crazy as it sounds. Then Macron was just diplomatic and he said, "Uh, yeah, any deal would be great news." But what about that framing? Trump says that Putin wants to do it for him and that part of Putin's motivation might be to get this done for Trump. Does that sound real? I do believe Putin might have said something like that because that would be good persuasion too and he would know it would work on Trump. But I also think that another way to look at that is that Putin knows that if he does something for Trump, Trump's going to respond in kind. So, I do believe that Putin wants to get it done under the Trump administration because if he can do that, then he's got something that Trump will say, "All right, you know, you did that for me. Didn't have to do it the way you did it,
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but you did it for me. Now, when I'm negotiating these sanctions and stuff like that, well, maybe I owe you one." So, I think it's more about Putin knowing that he wants to have the president of the United States owe him one. So, in that sense, he might be doing it for Trump. I guess Trump and Zelensky had some joking around in the Oval Office, not the Oval Office, but afterwards when they sit in…
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