Back to episode — Episode 2932 CWSA 08/19/25
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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…
← Previous segment →you might have said to yourself, well, I have to admit those other countries don't seem to be respecting him. They should, but I don't think they are. Well, what do you think now? Now that you got all of Europe to come over on short notice, you've got Putin taking his phone calls and coming to Alaska and he's working on arguably the most important topic and he'll probably get it done eventually, maybe not right away, but when you saw the photos of the Oval Office with all the European leaders in there and Zelensky and Trump behind his desk and all the rest look like visitors who were in their chairs around the room, it's hard to imagine that the rest of the world has a negative opinion of him. I don't think they do. I think they're just going to pay their tariffs and hope he can end all war.
Anyway, and according to the Finland president, he said that in the past two weeks,
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we've had more progress toward ending this war than in the past three and a half years. Now, I would debate whether there's progress because the only thing that matters is who gets what land and that's nowhere near settled. So, the fact that it's not settled and it doesn't look like it will be, I'm not really sure there's any progress. But if they all feel like there's progress, this adds to that…
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