00:00Dr. Carlotta, do you think that Putin is the chief dealmaker right now?
00:06Do you think he holds all the cards when it comes to what's happening?
00:11Right now, yes.
00:13And that's why, as Dr. Ely was mentioning, he's the one negotiating directly with Trump.
00:19This is just part of a bigger plan, in my view.
00:22So Ukraine is just one of the bargaining chips that he's using for a bigger negotiation
00:29with his counterpart, which is the U.S.,
00:32is not really interested in negotiating even with Zelensky himself
00:35because he's only focused on his bigger expansion plan, I would say.
00:41So, yes, definitely, the answer is yes.
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