record of being anti-Putin, he's exactly the person you want to send out to say, "I could live with this deal." That would mean something. Now of course no matter what happens, the Democrats will use it as an attack on Trump. But it would sort of weaken the attack.

So as I've said before, you never get a solution to a war under the condition that both sides are happier fighting than not fighting, which is the current situation or if one of them loses and nobody's losing that hard yet. You could argue that Ukraine is losing, but they're not losing hard enough that they would instantly sue for peace. So what do you do? Well, as I've often told you, the only path would be to find a way where both sides feel like they won.

So how could you create a situation with Ukraine and Europe and well in this case there are four sides you could say how does US, Europe, Ukraine and Russia, how do they all win? And I would argue that the one and only way that could happen is if they find a way to reframe the war as an economic opportunity. Now this is not a new idea obviously, but as soon as you say, "Hey, I've got an idea where we all get rich." Suddenly the war doesn't seem like such a good idea.

So let me just develop this idea a little bit. Suppose instead of giving Russia, what's the better way to say this? Suppose we come up with a plan where the energy and other resources of Ukraine could be equitably, I don't want to say shared but could become the launching pad for the US to make a lot of money by investing in their energy infrastructure. Ukraine could make a lot of money because their energy infrastructure could become great. Europe would be simply protected by the fact that the US would have such a big investment that if Putin attacked, he could be guaranteed that the oligarchs in the United States would say, "Unleash the army because we have too much money resting in Ukraine."

So could you create a situation where Russia would be better off economically? You know, they'd lose their sanctions and they'd get some relief. And they get to keep the stuff they've already conquered. I think that's a given. And the US gets rich or has so much economic opportunity that that becomes the security guarantee. So we would not necessarily have to say we will place our US army on Ukrainian soil. W