00:00I think this summit was very productive for Vladimir Putin so just a little bit
00:28more than a week ago he was threatened with new U.S. sanctions unless he agreed to a ceasefire
00:35and here we are just a little bit more than a week later and he's had a full-scale summit
00:40at a U.S. Air Force base in Alaska with the U.S. president probably the longest red carpet I've
00:47ever seen very good treatment and very little came out of it thank you very much Vladimir next time
00:56in Moscow oh that's an interesting one I think it's important to understand that for Vladimir Putin
01:03this summit was not about making peace in Ukraine it was about making peace with the United States or
01:12maybe just with Donald Trump so he accomplished that he made his peace with Donald Trump and his
01:21goal is to separate the Ukraine conflict from bilateral U.S. Russian relations it certainly
01:31looks like there has been a shift in Donald Trump's position but we've seen this movie before back in
01:40May Donald Trump was demanding an immediate ceasefire threatening sanctions and then he had a two-hour
01:48phone call with Vladimir Putin and he changed his tune and started saying that instead negotiation should
01:57begin which was exactly the position that Vladimir Putin was advocating so today we see something very
02:04similar a threat of sanctions demands for an immediate ceasefire and then after a long conversation with Vladimir Putin
02:12Vladimir Putin echoes of what Putin wants namely a grand peace agreement and a ceasefire as only part of that
02:19the order is very important for for Ukraine Ukraine wants an immediate ceasefire and then talks to begin whereas the Russians want the reverse order they would like to have an agreement
02:39in place and the ceasefire is only part of that and what does this do this gives Russia the ability to keep on making facts creating facts on the battlefield while negotiations continue and it also gives them the option of dragging out negotiations
02:58It's not a question of some territory Ukraine will be able to accept the de facto occupation of some territory for an undetermined amount of time Ukraine will not be able to of course accept recognizing that
03:05uh...
03:11He keeps on repeating what it...
03:31importantly are these security guarantees how do they know that that Russia will not attack them
03:37again and this is the main sticking point we're hearing different things about what was talked
03:43about but I am I am I am sure that they have not they have not reached an agreement on this point
03:49with with Vladimir Putin you're gambling with world war three you're gambling with world war
03:56three and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country this country I think there is a
04:03very big possibility that Vladimir Zelensky will be offered a poison chalice when he comes to the
04:09White House on Monday it's possible that Donald Trump will say this is what I've agreed with
04:16Vladimir Putin this is a reasonable this is a reasonable agreement and we now need your signature
04:25on it and that Vladimir Zelensky will be put before this dilemma he can either agree to a
04:33agree to a deal that is most probably disadvantageous to Ukraine or he can walk away from it in which
04:44case the United States may say that they are washing their hands of of this of this peace process and
04:52and and and may see a justification in in in ending U.S. support for Ukraine
04:58well the president certainly said that at least on truth social whether that's a firm commitment by the
05:13government unclear it does make the task much more difficult a ceasefire can be temporary it doesn't
05:23have to solve all of the problems that are outstanding between the two countries but it would accomplish what
05:31Trump keeps coming back to which is to stop the killing coming up with a complete agreement requires not
05:39just stabilizing the front lines but making an agreement about any territory swaps which are very
05:46controversial about sanctions and about war crimes about the return of any citizens that have been taken
05:59there are just a lot of issues on the table that would need to be solved and so that task is much more difficult
06:05so there's no deal until there's a deal I will call up NATO in a little while I will call up
06:13the various people that I think are appropriate and of course call up President Zelensky and tell him
06:19about today's meeting it's ultimately up to them the course of the summit was a surprise the meeting was
06:27supposed to go on for six or so hours it went on for about three the press conference was called very
06:35quickly there was a huge scramble by the journalists then it ended without any questions and Putin then
06:42got on his airplane and went home that was encouraging in the sense that it meant that the two sides particularly
06:51the U.S. went back to its allies and partners Ukraine and the Europeans to talk with them before
07:00it took any further steps it did not happen that Putin and Trump made a deal and then presented it
07:08to the Europeans and Ukraine and that had been the concern a week earlier when Witkoff had gone to
07:15Moscow and it looked like in fact the U.S. and Russia might make a deal without Ukraine being present and
07:24ignoring the Europeans so the fact that they did not make a deal and that President Trump is talking to
07:32Zelensky in fact he has talked to Zelensky and Zelensky is going to meet with him the Europeans have had
07:37the chance to weigh in several times that's all very encouraging that doesn't mean that at the end of
07:44the day there won't be an agreement that Ukraine doesn't like but at least we're in a much better
07:49place than we were a week ago
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