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Back to episode — Episode 2932 CWSA 08/19/25

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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, m…

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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 feeling that it's inevitable. What you would want is for Putin to feel that ending the war is inevitable and that there's progress toward making it happen because just putting him in that frame of mind is going to get him a lot closer to changing his mind if he needs to on any land. Same with Zelensky. So I guess the plan is that Zelensky and Putin will meet and if that goes well then Trump will meet with the two of them as a trilateral. I

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don't know where I guess that leaves out the European leaders but maybe they won't mind. I don't know. So that's coming. Trilateral. You're going to hear that word a lot. Trilateral. Well, Hamas has accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from a bunch of Arab mediators. So, that's good news, right? No, because there's no chance that Israel is going to accept it. So, Israel is not thinking about a ceas…

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