It is a momentous turn in our conversation about the 21st century. Two events are striking.
The first is, we're on the eve of a negotiation over the end of Ukraine's war and the beginning of a new relationship between Russia and the United States. Secondly, we're looking very carefully right now at the humor that's involved in Musk and the DOGE boys tearing through the federal government saying, “What's this, what's that?”
To give you an example, they found twelve names receiving Social Security checks, each of whom are 150 years old. So we're not talking about profound matters—you get it right away.
We're going to address, however, Russia, because that's the big one for our allies in Europe, for global energy prices and also for the future of Eurasia.
Russia is isolated and has been for some time from its customer base in Europe. And that's about to change.
The Trump administration and the President himself indicate that there will be a negotiation with the Kremlin to resolve the Ukraine conflict. Since that announcement, we've had the various players moving around. There is information that says Trump has spoken with Putin.
We do know that Mr. Zelensky is making public statements every day. The most recent that I saw—it might have been replaced—was that he's ready to sell rare earth metals to the U.S. in exchange for the U.S. rebuilding Ukraine. I'm not quite sure whether he's on the same planet we are, but in any event, that was what I remember.
For some time now, Germanicus has noticed that Russia is winning the battlefield. What does Russia want?
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