Will Trump’s Peace Plan Empower Russia?

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00:00And John, if reports on the secret plan are to be believed, President Trump has sided with

00:06Russia's Putin for Ukraine's surrender of territory, as we've been discussing. But dissenting

00:13voices will be asking what happens in the next five to 10 years after Russia has a chance to

00:20rearm itself. And legitimate concern. I do, I'm not in the camp that, you know, looks at President

00:32Trump's decision making and where he is, how he has flowed with respect to the Russia-Ukraine war

00:41and say he's all in for Ukraine. I mean, he's all in for Russia. If you look at what he has said

00:50and what he has written, he's looking at this, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong,

00:56but he's looking at this more transactionally, looking at it more how a real estate person

01:02would negotiate and how he looks at finality. And so he does have an ability to separate

01:11what we all want versus what we're likely to get. And he tends to focus more on the likely to get.

01:23And the problem that then he creates is when you start with what we want, a just and lasting peace,

01:31people are happy, you know, they're calm and they have a huggy, warm feeling.

01:38He just goes right to the end and saying, okay, you know, let's just be real. Russia's not going to

01:46back up and leave Ukraine. Maybe they will, but is that really going to be where we're going with

01:53this? So he's, you know, he just becomes, he becomes very raw very quickly. And diplomatically,

02:01that's difficult for people to digest. And the European Union, collectively,

02:06it reinforces just how impotent they really are.