Aug. 15, 2025 - America First - Nick Fuentes
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But as soon as you start playing games, I stop playing things. | |
| And at any moment, I can kick that yay button. | ||
| I said trust, don't make it to the cops. | ||
| I don't need you to take those in the car. | ||
| I said change from girls in the car. | ||
| My mama said trust, no hoes, you so probably. | ||
| I can't do it, but do it. | ||
| Stop the track. | ||
| See Ricky said to let the body don't want to pull you. | ||
| Okay, slap. | ||
| It's too much of a day one, always not still before this one. | ||
| But they ran up on your head. | ||
| Everything my fantasy is. | ||
| First day, all day, now they're hot. | ||
| I wonder where it doesn't seem to be. | ||
| Can't take those pockets, they start flying. | ||
| Not my words, not my rules. | ||
| i There was no hope, there's a hope. | ||
| But they said, what's the thing? | ||
| I was like, I'm gonna leave your day. | ||
| What's the problem? | ||
| Last time, my God. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Everybody is warming up. | ||
| Everybody dare to. | ||
| What up? | ||
| America's first bitch. | ||
| *music* | ||
| One two stop the track. | ||
| See Ricky said to let the body on one above. | ||
| Okay, one more too slap. | ||
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It's too much of a day one, always now we're still before this one. | |
| Everything my heart is is I'm in the first day market Now they're hot I wonder where it doesn't seem They can't make Those pockets They start flying Not my words, not my rules. | ||
| I can endorse them, alright? | ||
| I can endorse them, alright? | ||
| We'll see you next time. | ||
| I laughed out the sky. | ||
| Everybody. | ||
| Warming on everybody. | ||
| We dare to vote. | ||
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Warming on everybody. | |
| Warming on everybody. | ||
| America's first bitch. | ||
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They said, what's the thing? | |
| I'ma leave your day. | ||
| Blacked out in the sky. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| Swarming on everybody. | ||
| Dare to vote. | ||
| Outro music. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| America's first, bitch. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And people don't realize what they have. | ||
| And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did. | ||
| And the boys are dead boy. | ||
| So I'm going down the drain. | ||
| Our country going to hell. | ||
| In a handbasket. | ||
| We haven't got the country we had when I was great. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| Nobody will have the fun I have. | ||
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Nobody will have the opportunity I have. | |
| It's just not the same. | ||
| Jesus is the way and the life. | ||
| And the king of Israel. | ||
| We just leave with love. | ||
| We're really at a crossroads here. | ||
| Look around you. | ||
| It's drag queens in schools. | ||
| It's eighteen-year-olds joining only fans. | ||
| It's the filth on TikTok. | ||
| It's this country not having a border. | ||
| It's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never gonna own anything. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Never making an income to support a family, never being able to have a family. | ||
| People being corrupted before you're even a teenager by things on their phone, sick addiction to technology. | ||
| The future is so bleak. | ||
| But that has changed the calculation. | ||
| God is using me. | ||
| He's breaking me down, removing all of the, you know, riches person, all of this, so I can serve him. | ||
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I think I think they've been extremely unfair to you. | |
| Who is they though? | ||
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We can't say they is there is no future if we do nothing now. | |
| There is nothing to lose. | ||
| People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish. | ||
| It's all going. | ||
| It's all going away. | ||
| This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted. | ||
| We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated. | ||
| And we're killing ourselves every day. | ||
| Inadvertently. | ||
| With the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see, people have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing. | ||
| People have got to start to get courageous. | ||
| And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country. | ||
| And the alternative is that there will be no country. | ||
| Is it really only as big as low gas prices? | ||
| Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down? | ||
| It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better. | ||
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It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| When I get home, I want you. | ||
| Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. | ||
| I got places to be Good evening, everybody. | ||
| You're watching America First. | ||
| My name is Nicholas J. Fuentis. | ||
| Have a great show for you tonight. | ||
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We'll be right back. | |
| You got that back, back, that's what I could find You got that back, back, this hurt on the phone Men's a Dina, Dina, Dina, Dina You got that back, back, that's what I could find You got that back, back, that's what I could find You got that back, back, this hurt on the phone I'm going to go. | ||
| We paved the way with our corpses. | ||
| Roypers and all the alt-riders that got banned, all the alt-riders that got slandered, even people that killed themselves. | ||
| Our corpses paved the way for you now to walk over. | ||
| And you can't give us acknowledgement. | ||
| Now you want to slam the door on us. | ||
| It's not right. | ||
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it's not right In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events. | |
| One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away. | ||
| *Music* | ||
| They don't understand the things I say on sweet. | ||
| They don't understand the things that sound true All my niggas now she's making a hell of a Oh, look at what you're talking about The Romans, whoever they know You're looking at | ||
| him, asshole They don't understand the things that sound true All my niggas now she's making a hell of a There is something involved where we have to forgive them We do have to forgive them for their ignorance We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding And we have to embrace | ||
| them and say, "Better late than never." Welcome to the right side of history Welcome to our massive vision, our massive and ambitious vision for how we want the world to be. | ||
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Good afternoon, everybody. | |
| You are watching America First. | ||
| My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. | ||
| Today we have some interesting live coverage. | ||
| We are moments away from the Trump-Putin press conference. | ||
| They just wrapped up a bilateral meeting moments ago. | ||
| And I don't know how many of you guys have been watching this. | ||
| I've been watching it all day. | ||
| Well, watching and waiting for this to take place. | ||
| But it looks like it'll begin momentarily. | ||
| I'm going to put the audio on shortly for when they do arrive. | ||
| But for those that are just joining us, for those that have just started watching, today was the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. | ||
| They met at a U.S. base in Anchorage, Alaska. | ||
| They had a bilateral meeting, originally supposed to only include Trump and Putin themselves, but then expanded to include the respective special envoys, foreign ministers. | ||
| And then they were joined at the last minute by the defense ministers from their respective countries. | ||
| So supposed to be just a one-on-one. | ||
| It then became a four-on-four with the head of state, envoy, foreign minister, defenseman. | ||
| defense minister. | ||
| And the meeting went on for a very long time. | ||
| It was scheduled to go, I believe, just about an hour, and it went on for almost three hours. | ||
| So it was a long meeting, and uh and everything else got pushed back as a result. | ||
| They were supposed to do a luncheon, a press conference. | ||
| Everything has been pushed back. | ||
| Now, we talked all about this last night. | ||
| If you caught the show yesterday, this was my main story. | ||
| We talked all about kind of the buildup to this summit into the meeting and what would be discussed. | ||
| And it's highly dynamic. | ||
| It'll be interesting to see what the result of the negotiations were. | ||
| Going into the meeting, the White House and Trump downplayed the outcome. | ||
| Both Trump and the White House, the press secretary said that this would be a listening session, that the purpose of the meeting would be to gauge the willingness to negotiate on the Russian side. | ||
| And what that means is that they were not anticipating a ceasefire, comprehensive peace, any kind of an agreement from this meeting alone. | ||
| This was supposed to serve as the prelude to a second meeting, which would involve Vladimir Zelensky or a representative from Ukraine, which will happen down the line. | ||
| So that's how we entered the meeting with very low expectations, as articulated again by the White House and by the president. | ||
| This morning, however, they sort of changed their tune. | ||
| And Trump said that if the meeting did not go well, he would leave. | ||
| He said if Putin did not agree to a ceasefire, he would not be happy. | ||
| And if the meeting was not successful, it would be short and there would not be another one. | ||
| So we're getting kind of mixed messages here. | ||
| Simultaneously, they're saying it's listening session. | ||
| The purpose of the meeting is to gauge the willingness on the Russian side to accept a ceasefire or a truce, maybe to hear their reasonable demands as opposed to their starting position. | ||
| But then this morning, kind of changed up that position and said in reality, if it doesn't go well, there may not be another meeting. | ||
| And obviously that's uh negotiating tactic. | ||
| But so Trump and Putin touched down earlier today, 11 30 local time. | ||
| That was 2 30 p.m. | ||
| Uh central time where I'm located. | ||
| Uh they flew into Alaska, they met on the tarmac on a red carpet, staged for photographs, sat with the press pool, although the audio was taken away, and then they entered into that meeting, like I said, that just kept getting bigger. | ||
| It became a four-on-four meeting. | ||
| Went on far longer than expected, almost three hours, and now here we are at the press conference where they're expected to speak shortly. | ||
| According to representatives from the Russian side, the meeting went very well. | ||
| According to all the latest reports, they talked to a representative from the Russian regime. | ||
| They said the meeting was excellent. | ||
| So it'll be interesting to see what happens if there is a ceasefire, some kind of an agreement. | ||
| Uh, maybe there'll be plans for a second meeting. | ||
| The most notable thing about this meeting is that it excludes the other principal uh party in the conflict. | ||
| There is no representative from Ukraine. | ||
| Zelensky's not there. | ||
| There is no Ukrainian government representative. | ||
| It was just a U.S. Russian meeting. | ||
| Trump said this would be a prelude to a second meeting, which would be a three-way meeting in a third-party country, which would involve the United States, Ukraine, and Russia, maybe someplace in Europe. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| Maybe they'll announce something like that. | ||
| Maybe there'll be plans for that in the future. | ||
| Uh, but as of right now, we have no idea what's happening. | ||
| So we're gonna cut to ABC. | ||
| We'll see what they are saying. | ||
| If there's any update, maybe we'll get a timetable on when this is supposed to start. | ||
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Suddenly scrambled, racing in here. | |
| I'm surrounded by hundreds of reporters, hundreds of cameras, the U.S. press, the White House delegation, the Russian press, everyone here now sitting at attention, waiting to learn what has happened. | ||
| What progress, if any, has been made. | ||
| And as we said, the president had indicated he would simply walk away. | ||
| There was not uh something to announce. | ||
| Clearly, there is now something something to announce. | ||
| It is not just this room that is waiting. | ||
| It is the world, and it is certainly Ukraine who has the most on the line In this summit, waiting eagerly to learn what has been uh discussed, what progress has been made. | ||
| And remember, the President did say that he was going to call President Zelensky as soon as he wrapped up his meeting. | ||
| Another question that we will have for the President here, David. | ||
| Mary, you've covered President Trump for many years. | ||
| You covered him as a candidate as well. | ||
| And we don't know that he knows what 630 means back in the United States, that uh millions of Americans tune in for the evening. | ||
| So they say apparently there's an announcement. | ||
| Let's tune in here. | ||
| This is uh re-rum Novarum breaking news source. | ||
| Let's take a look. | ||
| Russian ambassador asked about the talks, said generally very positive. | ||
| Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev said they went remarkably well. | ||
| Russian defense minister Andrei Belusov said excellent when asked about the talks. | ||
| Reuters reports they proceeded extremely well. | ||
| So it seems like they were a success. | ||
| We'll see if there's uh temporary ceasefire declared or something like that. | ||
| Sounds like there was an agreement made on U.S. soil in Anchorage, Alaska. | ||
| They have been meeting for more than uh two hours. | ||
| Uh President uh Putin had said going into this meeting that he wanted to talk about more than just Ukraine. | ||
| Uh he was aware that President Trump wanted a ceasefire. | ||
| He talked about the sincerity of that, the energy of that was complimentary to President Trump uh in the days leading up to this summit, but also said he wanted to talk about the economy, uh, business relationships and nuclear issues with President Trump as well. | ||
| Obviously, we'll have to wait to hear what they tell reporters as to what was discussed. | ||
| You heard Mary talk about the people of Ukraine also waiting to hear uh if there's been any movement in trying to end this war. | ||
| I want to bring in Ian Pannel, our chief foreign correspondent. | ||
| He's in Kyiv. | ||
| He's covered the war for years now for us. | ||
| Uh and Ian, I gather many people are up in the middle of the night there waiting to hear if there's been any movement here. | ||
| Yeah, that's right, David. | ||
| I think everyone is fixed onto their TV screens, listening to their radios and waiting to see what the news is, not least of course the presidents of the country, Zelensky, uh, who is promised that phone call from President Trump when this meeting finishes. | ||
| Uh, I think many people were concerned that if it ended quickly, perhaps it was bad news, but if it ends quickly and there's a joint press conference, then perhaps hopes are raised that there could be a ceasefire. | ||
| But people are going to be very cautious here. | ||
| They've been burnt before. | ||
| Uh, Ukraine has signed peace deals in the past, uh involving America, involving Russia, that have been broken, promises that have not been kept. | ||
| So people will want to see the details of this. | ||
| Stage one, of course, would be a potential ceasefire, but then comes the tricky parts of negotiations. | ||
| Potentially a trilateral meeting involving Zelensky, Putin, and Trump, but then they've got to try and resolve some of the differences. | ||
| Russia occupies 20 percent of Ukrainian land, one-fifth of the territory uh has Russian troops on it. | ||
| They're gonna have to negotiate what happens to that territory, who controls it, uh, and as well. | ||
| Russia also maintains its original aims of the war. | ||
| Set out. | ||
| We were standing here three and a half years ago, talking to you as the war started. | ||
| Vladimir Putin saying, Essentially he doesn't recognize Ukraine as a valid state, doesn't want to ally to the West, doesn't want it part of NATO, and doesn't want it militarily strong. | ||
| So how are you going to bridge those important differences? | ||
| Those are the details that will have to be worked out. | ||
| But if if, and it is a large if at this moment, they come onto that stage and they announce that there is a ceasefire, there will be enormous relief in this country. | ||
| Finally, people will be able to rest at least for now, uh, and then worry about what comes tomorrow. | ||
| Yeah, it's impossible to overstate the challenge that lies ahead, whether there is a ceasefire here or not. | ||
| Ian, something that you just brought up, which I think is really important uh for our audience is just to remind them uh of where this all stands. | ||
| Of course, Americans have been uh deeply following the war in Ukraine since the invasion more than three and a half years ago. | ||
| And Ian, as you point out, uh Russian gains, uh they are now uh overseeing, if you will, or in control of, at least for now, about twenty percent of the eastern part of Ukraine. | ||
| Vladimir Putin has signaled that he doesn't want to give any of that up. | ||
| In fact, there are a couple of areas where he wants more territory, and of course, President Zelensky has said uh that that that territory is rightfully uh belongs to Ukraine and the people of Ukraine that the Constitution wouldn't allow him to give that up, even though Russia made gains after the invasion. | ||
| So again, if, and it's a big if they announce a ceasefire here today, it would seem there's going to be quite a challenge when they get President Zelensky, President Putin, President Trump to a table. | ||
| That's what potentially is coming next here. | ||
| Looks like it's about to start. | ||
| Yeah, it it's it's a huge gulf. | ||
| It's not just that Vladimir Putin was a very strong. | ||
| He also changed his constitution. | ||
| He now enshrines Ukrainian provinces. | ||
| Think of them like uh American states as part of Russia. | ||
| So that would mean rechanging the the the Russian constitution uh to relinquish that territory, which seems unthinkable. | ||
| Russian troops are on the front foot on the front lines uh in the east of the country at the moment. | ||
| They're not taking huge amounts of ground uh ground. | ||
| The front lines have moved marginally over time, uh and Russian troops are slowly advancing at a cost. | ||
| Was that Steve Woodkoff? | ||
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That's what it looked like. | |
| Can't really tell. | ||
| I think that was um very, very thin. | ||
| Uh the flow of weapons, the flow of defensive weapons and offensive weapons uh has slowed down, those long-range weapons that President Biden uh agreed to give to Ukraine has has effectively stopped. | ||
| So President Trump has not authorized those long-range weapons to continue to flow. | ||
| So Ukraine's ability to defend itself has been weakened. | ||
| Uh Ukraine knows it's on the back foot, but again, Zelensky is in the same position. | ||
| His constitution enshrines the integrity of Ukrainian land. | ||
| And that's something that the Europeans have been trying to stress to Donald Trump that you can't negotiate away the territory. | ||
| So how do you resolve that? | ||
| How do you recognize somehow that Russia occupies parts of your land and have a lasting peace? | ||
| And again I go back to peace treaties that have been uh broken before Ukrainians mistrustful. | ||
| Ian panel in key for us, Ian. | ||
| We appreciate your reporting your insights today, and of course, for years now covering this war. | ||
| So many of us on this team have been to Ukraine a number of times. | ||
| Uh Martha Raditz included in that. | ||
| I've been there, we've brought the broadcast there many times during this war, interviewed President Zelensky uh in the middle of all of this. | ||
| And again, as Mary pointed out earlier, uh, President Trump did promise President Zelensky during conversations earlier this week that he would call him uh after this summit wraps up to to give him a readout of what played out. | ||
| We did show this video. | ||
| I want to show it again and again. | ||
| This is a live picture. | ||
| The moment those two leaders walk out, we will carry it live. | ||
| So you're not gonna want to tune away. | ||
| Uh we'll hear from them if there's been progress made here today in Anchorage, Alaska. | ||
| But moments ago, uh, we got images in of Vladimir Putin. | ||
| It appeared uh to show him leaving uh the summit after uh more than two and a half hours. | ||
| Yeah, we just saw that with President Trump. | ||
| We just saw that. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Re Rum Novarum, we got any updates? | ||
| It's been a long day of waiting on all this. | ||
| I would gather they're preparing it now because it looks like we have some new statements here from the Russian ambassador. | ||
| Russian ambassador Darchiev said without the return of Russia's confiscated diplomatic property in the USA, resolving other issues is difficult. | ||
| Moscow has prepared documents to restore direct air communication with the USA, they are being discussed. | ||
| Sounds like a nothing burger. | ||
| That's the agreement. | ||
| This was a complete and total scramble, the timeline shifting up for the White House calling on officials and calling on us to quickly assemble and come in. | ||
| So she said Steve Whitkopf came and then left. | ||
| President and Trump impossibly too. | ||
| And we did notice that they were doing mic checks on two of the podiums uh that that are here. | ||
| Steve Witkoff played a very critical role, as you mentioned, David, in setting up today's summit and today's meeting. | ||
| I traveled with the president on Air Force One here to Alaska, and it was notable just how aligned his message was with our European allies following a big call that they all had. | ||
| The President telling me that today his goal is to get Ukraine and Russia to a table to negotiate a ceasefire at some point. | ||
| But it would be up to Ukraine, and it Would be ultimately their decision to decide if there are any territorial swaps. | ||
| Of course, we have heard from Ukrainian President Zelensky, he has been adamant that that should not happen unless there are security guarantees, which the President says that he is open to stated. | ||
| Well, Rachel, we have our normal viewers who are watching at 6 30 and those around the country who've tuned in uh a little earlier than normal because of our live coverage here uh tonight. | ||
| And uh in reading the tea leaves, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves uh too quickly here, Rachel, but just reading the tea leaves. | ||
| President Trump said going into this summit that if it didn't go well, uh he could potentially walk out, uh return to Washington, but that uh even if it didn't go well, he would address reporters at least on his own. | ||
| And the the fact that that you point out that they tested both mics, uh, that the media has been told to expect uh a press conference with both leaders would pretend perhaps uh some movement here on trying to get some sort of resolution to get everyone to the table here. | ||
| Yes, David, and I'll tell you that even 20 minutes into the fight on Air Force One, we did get a surprise visitor. | ||
| It was the President of the United States. | ||
| He suddenly came back, he spoke to reporters, and he was very clear that he would be willing to walk out of this meeting if he did not get what he needed or did not hear what he needed to from the Russian president. | ||
| So the sign that and the fact that this has now gone on, I was in that earlier. | ||
| Okay, Russian delegation has taken their seats. | ||
| So it looks like it's gonna start momentarily. | ||
| Shouted several questions at President Putin about a ceasefire and if he would stop killing uh Ukrainian civilian Putin did not respond, although he did appear to whisper something back to me. | ||
| Uh but just the sign that this has lasted this long is a sign that there could be potential progress at the very least. | ||
| Either way, the president said that he was prepared to come out here and address the cameras, and now we're waiting to see if the President is going to join him, David. | ||
| Rachel Scott, part of our Sergio Avrov, Russian. | ||
| And Mary, I see people holding up their cameras right now, and of course that uh there you go. | ||
| Some of the dignitaries now entering uh the room. | ||
| Sergey Lavrov among them, uh, right there in the front row, part of the Russian delegation. | ||
| Steve Whitkoff, we know entered the room, then left the room. | ||
| We were getting sort of a play-by-play. | ||
| Susie Wiles, the Chief of Staff of the White House entering the room now. | ||
| Secretary President. | ||
| Yeah, it looks like essence among others there, uh part of the U.S. delegation, uh, of course, in Anchorage, Alaska for this historic summit with Vladimir Putin, uh, the defense secretary as well. | ||
| You heard Martha Raditz talk earlier about how President Trump had said going into this that he would know and fairly quickly if there was going to be progress with Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Uh halfway through the week, they did lower expectations a bit, saying that this was going to be in some ways a listening exercise. | ||
| Uh but the president remaining optimistic all week long, and even on Air Force One, as Rachel Scott just reported, she was on Air Force One traveling with the President. | ||
| He sounded optimistic as well. | ||
| He believed, he said late this week that Vladimir Putin was coming to this summit because he wanted to make a deal of some sort. | ||
| Uh President Trump confident that, and there you have Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was also in the room uh with President Trump and Vladimir Putin, along with Steve Whitkoff. | ||
| Of course, we'll learn more about what played out in that room, more than two and a half hours this summit uh in Anchorage, Alaska. | ||
| We were told that there would be some sort of a working lunch, uh working session of sorts with larger delegations from both countries that would follow uh the summit itself between these two leaders. | ||
| We were told that was scrapped. | ||
| And as we've been reporting here, uh reporters from the International Press Corps were uh scrambled, if you will, told to uh get into the press room uh more quickly than they thought this would come for this joint press conference. | ||
| And again, we have been saying here that President Trump had leading in to this summit said that at the very least I will address reporters on the back side, uh, even if it's not about what I want it to be. | ||
| I will take questions from reporters in that audience. | ||
| But they have been testing both microphones. | ||
| Uh, you can see the Russian delegation there in the front row. | ||
| Every indication, obviously, is that we're gonna hear from both of these leaders uh on a day when the timing of this was moved up. | ||
| The working session that followed the summit uh was scrapped. | ||
| Uh it would appear, it would appear, and I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, that there has been some sort of progress uh in this effort to try to get to a ceasefire, and again, President Trump has said repeatedly that the ceasefire was very important to him, and a ceasefire today. | ||
| But he also acknowledged that the President of the United States of America, the President of the United States and Vladimir Putin taking the stage. | ||
| Let's watch and let's listen. | ||
| We'll report on the backside. | ||
| Dear President, ladies and gentlemen, our discussions were in a constructive and respectful atmosphere. | ||
| They were very suitable and useful. | ||
| I would like to thank my American colleague for the invitation to come to Alaska. | ||
| It's quite logical to meet us here, because our countries, although we are in the ocean, are actually close to our neighbors. | ||
| And when we met, we came from the plane and said, Good morning, dear friend. | ||
| It's very nice to see you here. | ||
| There's a translation. | ||
| Let's see if Fox has it. | ||
| There's Bering, though. | ||
| There are two islands only between the Russian island and the U.S. island. | ||
| They're only four kilometers apart. | ||
| It's also important that Alaska has to do with our common history between Russia and the U.S. And many positive events have to do with that territory. | ||
| Still there is tremendous cultural heritage back from the Russian America. | ||
| For example, Orthodox churches and a lot of more than seven hundred geographical names of Russian original. | ||
| It was here in Alaska that was the origin of the legendary air bridge for the supply of military aircraft and other equipment under the land lease program. | ||
| It was a dangerous and treacherous route over the vast emptiness of ice. | ||
| However, the pilots of both countries did everything to bring closer to victory. | ||
| They risked their lives and they gave it all for the common victory. | ||
| I was just in the city of Magadan in Russia and there was a memorial there dedicated to the Russian and the U.S. pilots. | ||
| And there are two flags, the U.S. flag and the Russian flag. | ||
| And I know that here as well there is such a memorial. | ||
| There is a military burial place several kilometers away from here. | ||
| The Soviet pilots buried there who died during that dangerous mission. | ||
| We're thankful to the citizens and the government of the U.S. for carefully taking care of their memory. | ||
| I think that's very worthy and noble. | ||
| We'll always remember other historical examples when our countries defeated common enemies together in the spirit of battle camaraderie and alliancehip that supported each other and facilitated each other. | ||
| I'm sure that this heritage will help us rebuild and foster mutually beneficial and equal ties at this new stage even during the hardest conditions. | ||
| It is known that there have been no summits between Russia and the U.S. for four years and that's a long time. | ||
| I think that this time was very hard for bilateral relations and let's be frank, they've fallen to the lowest point since the Cold War. | ||
| I think that's not benefiting our countries and the world as a whole. | ||
| It is apparent that sooner or later we had to amend the situation to move on from the confrontation to dialogue. | ||
| And in this case, a personal meeting between the heads of states has been long overdue, naturally, under the condition of serious and painstaking work. | ||
| And this work has been done in general. | ||
| Me and President Trump had very good direct contact. | ||
| We've spoken multiple times. | ||
| We spoke frankly on the phone. | ||
| And Special Envoy of the President, Mr. Wood, have traveled out to Russia several times. | ||
| Our advisors and heads of foreign ministries kept in touch all the time. | ||
| And you know fully well that one of the central issues was the situation around Ukraine. | ||
| We see the stride of the administration and President Trump personally to help facilitate the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict. | ||
| And his stride to get to the crux of the matter to understand his history is precious. | ||
| As I've said, the situation in Ukraine has to do with the fundamental threats to our security. | ||
| We've always considered the Ukrainian nation and have said it multiple times. | ||
| times a brotherly nation, how estranged it may sound in these conditions. | ||
| We have the same roots and everything that's happening is a tragedy for us, a terrible wound. | ||
| Therefore, the country is sincerely interested in putting an end to it. | ||
| At the same time, settlement lasting and long term we need to eliminate all the primary roots and primary causes of that conflict. | ||
| and we've said it multiple times, to consider all legitimate concerns of Russia and to reinstate a just balance of security in Europe and in the world on the whole. | ||
| And I agree with President Trump, as he has said today, that naturally the security of Ukraine should be insured as well. | ||
| Naturally, we are prepared to work on that. | ||
| I would like to hope that the agreement that we've reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine. | ||
| We expect that TF and European capital will perceive that constructively working with the attempts to use some backroom dealings and to conduct provocations to torpedo the nascent progress. | ||
| Incidentally, when the new administration came to power, bilateral trade started to grow. | ||
| It's still very symbolic. | ||
| Still we have a growth of 20 percent. | ||
| As I've said, we have a lot of dimensions for joint work. | ||
| It is clear that the U.S. and Russian investment and business cooperation has tremendous potential. | ||
| Russia and U.S. can offer each other so much in trade, digital, high-tech, and in space exploration. | ||
| We see that Arctic cooperation is also very possible in our international contacts, for example, between the far east of Russia and the west coast of the U.S. Overall, it's very important for our countries to turn the page, to go back to cooperation. | ||
| It is symbolic that not far away from here, the border between Russia and U.S. will the so-called international dateline. | ||
| I think you can step over it literally from yesterday into tomorrow. | ||
| And I hope that we'll succeed in that, in political sphere. | ||
| I would like to thank President Trump for our joint work, for the well-wishing and trustworthy tone of our conversation. | ||
| It's important that both sides are result-oriented, and we see that the President of the U.S. has a very clear idea of what he would like to achieve. | ||
| He sincerely cares about the prosperity of his nation. | ||
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Still, he understands that Russia has its own national interests. | |
| I expect that today's agreements will be the starting point, not only for the solution of the Ukrainian issue, but also will help us bring back business-like and pragmatic relations between Russia and the U.S. And in the end, I would like to add one more thing. | ||
| I'd like to remind you that in 2022, during the last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be brought to the point of no return when it would come to hostilities. | ||
| And I said it quite directly back then that it's a big mistake. | ||
| Today, with President Trump saying that if he was the president back then, there would be no more. | ||
| And I'm quite sure that it would indeed be so. | ||
| I can confirm that. | ||
| I think that overall, me and President Trump have built a very good business-like and trustworthy contact. | ||
| And I have every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come, and the sooner the better, the end of the conflict in Ukraine. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| Well, thank you very much, Mr. President. | ||
| That was uh very profound, and I will say that I believe we had a very productive meeting. | ||
| There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven't quite got there, but we've made some headway. | ||
| So there's no deal until there's a deal. | ||
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I will call up NATO in a little while. | |
| I will call up uh the various people that I think are appropriate, and I'll of course call up President Zelensky and tell them about today's meeting. | ||
| It's also ultimately up to them. | ||
| They're gonna have to agree with uh what Marco and Steve and some of the great people from the Trump administration who've come here, Scott and uh John Radcliffe. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| But we have uh some of our really great leaders, they've been doing a phenomenal job. | ||
| We also have some tremendous Russian uh business representatives here, and I think you know, everybody wants to deal with us. | ||
| We become the hottest country anywhere in the world at a very short period of time, and uh we look forward to that. | ||
| We look forward to dealing. | ||
| We're gonna try and get this over with. | ||
| We we really made some uh great progress today. | ||
| I've always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin with Vladimir. | ||
| We had uh many uh tough meetings, good meetings we were uh interfered with by the Russia-Russia Russia hoax that made it a little bit tougher to deal with, but he understood it. | ||
| Uh I think he's probably seen things like that during the course of his career. | ||
| He's seen he's seen it all, but we had to put up with the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax. | ||
| He knew it was a hoax, and I knew it was a hoax, but what was done was very criminal. | ||
| But it made it harder for us to deal as a country in terms of the business and all of the things that we'd like to have dealt with, but uh we'll have a good chance when this is over. | ||
| So, just to put it very quickly, I'm gonna start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened. | ||
| But we had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to. | ||
| Uh, there are just a very few that are left. | ||
| Some are not that significant. | ||
| One is probably the most significant. | ||
| But we have a very good chance of getting there. | ||
| We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there. | ||
| I would like to thank uh President Putin and his entire team whose faces who I know in many cases, otherwise, other than that, whose whose faces I get to see you all the time in the newspapers. | ||
| You're very you're almost as famous as the boss. | ||
| But uh especially this one right over here. | ||
| But we had some good meetings over the years, right? | ||
| Good productive meetings over the years. | ||
| We hope to have that in the future. | ||
| But let's do the most productive one right now. | ||
| We're gonna stop really five, six, seven thousand thousands of people a week from being killed. | ||
| And President Putin wants to see that as much as I do. | ||
| So uh again, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you very much, and we'll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon. | ||
| Thank you very much, Vladimir. | ||
| Next time in Moscow. | ||
| Oh, that's an interesting moment. | ||
| A little heap on that one, but I uh I could see it possibly happening. | ||
| Thank you very much, Vladimir. | ||
| And thank you all. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| No questions? | ||
| Wow, okay. | ||
| All that for that. | ||
| Okay, so we got nothing. | ||
| So there's a so there's no announcement. | ||
| There's nothing. | ||
| Well. | ||
| Yeah, very little in the way of any announcements or details or specifics. | ||
| It sounds like they have something like a working agreement from what Trump said. | ||
| Trump said he's now gonna call NATO and Ukraine. | ||
| He says that almost everything is ironed out. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's all very cryptic, cryptic and nonspecific. | ||
| So I guess we'll just have to wait a little bit longer. | ||
| We'll see what happens next week. | ||
| If they're going to announce anything. | ||
| It's hard even to speculate. | ||
| There's so little in the way of details. | ||
| Uh what the items they agreed to were, what are the outstanding items that You know, there's just no information. | ||
| So they said it was productive, though. | ||
| So there's that. | ||
| And there'll be another forthcoming meeting potentially to finish the agreement, something like that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So that's it. | ||
| So I guess that's it. | ||
| That's all we got. | ||
| We got nothing. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, that was a waste of time. | ||
| Let's look at the live chat here. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| No deal. | ||
| Literally nothing. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Let's take a look on Re Rum Novarm if there's anything that's being reported in the press. | ||
| Well, there's no agreement. | ||
| It seemed congenial enough. | ||
| What I will say is this. | ||
| Here, here's the takeaway. | ||
| All right. | ||
| The takeaway is this. | ||
| Going into the meeting. | ||
| You got, oh, here, let me get rid of this first. | ||
| I guess I'll just reset it. | ||
| Going into the meeting, the victory condition for Putin was really just a be here. | ||
| This entire thing, this photo op, the fanfare, the ceremony, it's all a major victory for Putin. | ||
| And I know it's been said probably a thousand times already today, but all of this has to do with legitimacy. | ||
| When Putin invaded Ukraine, the Biden administration sought to delegitimize the Russian regime and to delegitimize their war. | ||
| Not to recognize the territorial advances, not to recognize the Russian regime. | ||
| And so, as I've said last night, as I've said in the past couple of weeks, the first move that Biden made in the uh previous administration was to completely isolate Russia, or attempt to isolate Russia diplomatically, | ||
| to freeze all diplomatic economic relations, freeze their assets, suspend their access to the SWIFT system, U.S. financial and economic system, and even to suspend them from the Olympics and other diplomatic institutions. | ||
| The charge is that Putin is a war criminal, and there is even talk of regime change in Russia. | ||
| This is the level of diplomatic freezing that occurred in the last administration. | ||
| When Trump took office again back in January, as we discussed, he's made many attempts to thaw those relations. | ||
| He's had direct phone calls with Putin, as Putin himself alluded to in this statement. | ||
| Steve Whitkoff has made trips to Moscow. | ||
| Marco Rubio met with Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the year. | ||
| They reestablished communications. | ||
| And this was the highest level meeting, obviously, so far. | ||
| This is the first time Putin has been in America in 10 years. | ||
| It's the first time a U.S. president has met with the Russian president since the previous Trump administration. | ||
| And so this is a major win for Putin because it confers legitimacy upon the war. | ||
| It says we are no longer undermining the Russian regime. | ||
| Russia's no longer iced out of the international system. | ||
| For this just to happen is a win for Putin. | ||
| As far as Trump is concerned, it's a little more complicated. | ||
| Trump needs a deal. | ||
| And the architecture of the deal is very complicated. | ||
| Because of course, the concern on both sides is that there is this deep distrust. | ||
| What Trump and Ukraine and NATO seek is a freezing of the battle lines. | ||
| They want the war to stop. | ||
| And the reason they want that is because the Russians are winning. | ||
| The Russians are innovating in drone tactics and in other tactics using small teams of uh dismounted soldiers. | ||
| And they're making a lot of progress on the battlefield. | ||
| They're making a lot of tactical victories, especially in the past couple weeks. | ||
| So the Russians are moving very quickly. | ||
| The Ukrainian front line is collapsing. | ||
| They're just out of manpower. | ||
| They do not have enough manpower, cannot mobilize any additional manpower. | ||
| And the American and NATO alliance Are not able to keep up with equipment. | ||
| Russia is producing millions of drones every year. | ||
| And they're creating artillery shells and missiles, many times the rate that the United States and Europe is. | ||
| So it turned into attritional warfare sometime around 2023 is when the tactics began to shift, about a year into the war. | ||
| And the United States and Europe are just not prepared to fight an atritional war. | ||
| We do not have the industrial base to fight an attritional war. | ||
| Ukraine does not have the population for an atritional war. | ||
| And so as the war has dragged on over the past couple of years, although the progress has been slow going, over time Russia has gradually seize the initiative and gain the upper hand. | ||
| That's why, in these summer offensives last year and this year, they've been making a lot of progress and gaining a lot of territory far more quickly than at any other time since the beginning of the war. | ||
| So the imperative on the side of Trump and Ukraine is they just want to stop Russia. | ||
| They want to stop the Russian advance because the Ukraine front line is at risk of falling apart and it's a complete Russian breakthrough. | ||
| So the Ukrainians, NATO, the United States, they just want it to stop. | ||
| And by the way, make no mistake about it. | ||
| When Trump says, I just want to stop the killing, that's rhetoric. | ||
| That's rhetoric. | ||
| When Trump says we just want to bring an end to the war, excuse me, and stop the fighting and all this, that's rhetorical. | ||
| Do not buy that for even two seconds. | ||
| Because the easiest way to stop the war is surrender. | ||
| You want to end the war, then cut off all the aid to Ukraine and the Ukrainian front line will collapse and Ukraine would lose the war, or they would be forced to unconditionally surrender. | ||
| So when they say, well, hey, man, we're just ready to, if we could all just put her there, let's just finish this war, that's rhetoric. | ||
| And what it constitutes is a shift in what the West is willing to accept from Russia. | ||
| Because under the Biden administration, there was this idea that Ukraine was going to retake all of the lost territory, that they were going to retake Luhansk, Gdanetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhia. | ||
| They were going to take all that back, maybe even Crimea. | ||
| They were going to take all the territory back, that they would not accept any Russian occupation, they would not accept any Russian annexation. | ||
| They were going to fight it through to the bitter end to victory. | ||
| That was the rhetoric under the Biden administration. | ||
| You are isolated, you are frozen out, the Russian regime, its days are numbered, we're going to overturn all of these territorial losses. | ||
| It's going to be over for you. | ||
| And all of that is shifted in the other direction. | ||
| That is not going to happen. | ||
| And I think the West realized that's not going to happen. | ||
| I think in some ways, maybe that is why Trump was allowed to win. | ||
| One of the benefits of a democracy is that it actually affords diplomatic latitude. | ||
| Maybe this sounds like conspiracy stuff, but to have a more friendly face come into Washington, it lets Washington say face, actually. | ||
| Because ordinarily, if you just had one regime from 2022 until today, it would be a very significant about face to go from Putin is a war criminal, we need to overthrow him. | ||
| We are not going to accept any territorial losses to now what they're saying is, well, hey, let's just stop the fighting. | ||
| Let's just freeze the battle lines where they are. | ||
| You can keep what you've gotten so far. | ||
| If it was one consistent regime, that would be a defeat. | ||
| But if you have a regime change, if it goes from Biden to Trump and Donald Trump rides in on this opposition to the war from the public, then Trump can say, well, there's a new sheriff in town, new leadership. | ||
| We want to end the war. | ||
| And so now the new line is, well, let's just freeze the battle lines where they are. | ||
| Let's just stop. | ||
| But of course, this benefits the American side. | ||
| For Trump to say, let's just stop the fighting, that's very convenient because now Russia's winning. | ||
| So Trump says, let's just, let's just call it quits. | ||
| We just don't want to see anyone die anymore. | ||
| That's super convenient now that Russia is about to break through and they're about to take the whole thing. | ||
| They're making these rapid gains. | ||
| Of course the American side just wants to shut it all down. | ||
| Here's the problem. | ||
| There is immense distrust on both sides that they will adhere to any kind of agreement. | ||
| Putin knows that if we just stop the fighting right now, that is going to give the advantage to the Ukrainians. | ||
| They get to mobilize more personnel. | ||
| They get more equipment from NATO and from the United States. | ||
| So Putin has said that the condition for a ceasefire, he said this in Turkey in June. | ||
| Putin said, my condition for a 30-day temporary ceasefire is you have to demobilize. | ||
| You have to leave the territories that we have occupied. | ||
| The United States and NATO cannot send any more weapons shipments, and Ukraine cannot mobilize any additional personnel. | ||
| Because otherwise, why would we stop? | ||
| You want to call a timeout because you're losing. | ||
| And when you call a timeout, then you're just going to consolidate and gather strength for the second round. | ||
| You're going to lay more mines, you're going to lay more defensive fortifications, mobilize more manpowered equipment. | ||
| Why would we call a timeout right now? | ||
| On the flip side, with the Americans and the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians are seeking security guarantees. | ||
| Because even if Putin agrees to a ceasefire or a comprehensive peace, the big concern is that on a long enough timeline, Russia will fortify. | ||
| Russia will consolidate their forces. | ||
| And so if Russia has come this far, if they already invaded, if Russia succeeds in taking NATO membership off the table for Ukraine, and Ukraine is no longer able to access that defensive treaty and then have protection from the United States and Europe, Ukraine is concerned that what would stop Russia from starting the war all over again if they were willing to do it the first time, absent a defensive alliance with the United States and Europe. | ||
| Russia will once again try to test whatever ceasefire line is created. | ||
| They will test it, they will push on it. | ||
| Eventually they might reinvade and go for more territory, either to take the entire coast of the Black Sea or take the Capitol, cross the Dnieper River. | ||
| They're going to come for more. | ||
| So Ukraine wants America to be in Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine says we need security guarantees, defensive guarantees. | ||
| But what's the architecture of the deal then? | ||
| Because what Russia is asking for is that Ukraine can never join NATO. | ||
| Because if Ukraine joins NATO, that means American missiles and troops and equipment on Russia's border. | ||
| But for Ukraine to feel safe, they're going to need some guarantees. | ||
| Maybe they can't join NATO, but they would feel more comfortable if they had an American or NATO presence inside their country. | ||
| But at that point, it's a distinction without a difference. | ||
| If they have a Western security guarantee, that's not much different than Ukraine being in NATO. | ||
| And that is something that is not negotiable. | ||
| That's a non-starter for the Russian side. | ||
| So this is where they bring in the minerals deal. | ||
| And Trump said that there's a scenario where Russia and America mutually can exploit Ukraine's critical minerals and energy resources. | ||
| And if there's some kind of commercial partnership, then they would be bound together by economic ties. | ||
| And there would not be an interest in going to war. | ||
| If they could de-escalate some of the tension between Washington and Moscow, then the there'd be less of a risk that either side would try to test the ceasefire line, try to test those boundaries. | ||
| But of course, if the United States is involved in a mineral deal, then there's going to be an American presence. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| If Americans are in Ukraine extracting minerals and energy, there's going to be an American security footprint there as well. | ||
| And if there's an American civilian and security footprint in Ukraine, then if Russia tries to test those ceasefire lines, they're going to wind up shooting Americans. | ||
| And so once again, it effectively becomes a NATO outpost. | ||
| Uh, But without calling it that. | ||
| So the question of the deal is how do you install a tripwire? | ||
| How do you install a tripwire for the Russians where they will not test those boundaries such that Ukraine is satisfied, but also without creating another security risk for Russia? | ||
| That's that's really the architecture of the deal. | ||
| So I'm sure that's what was discussed on some level at the meeting is how do you kind of uh make it so that everybody's happy? | ||
| How do you make it so that Ukraine feels safe, but Russia doesn't feel threatened? | ||
| How do you create a tripwire in Ukraine without having Ukraine join NATO? | ||
| And I think the solution looks something like, as Putin said, a comprehensive cooperation between the United States and Russia. | ||
| And he mentioned some of those areas of cooperation like mineral extraction, like trade. | ||
| Also the Arctic. | ||
| That's a major area of mutual cooperation, and Russia seeks to kick China out of the Arctic. | ||
| That's actually where Russia and the United States can work together against China. | ||
| So that was one thing that was suggested in Putin's uh remarks. | ||
| But as of right now, we have no idea what that's gonna look like. | ||
| If it's anything like the mineral deal, uh what things that Putin said in Istanbul in June that are gonna be agreed upon, where he's compromised, we don't know because we we sort of know where Russia is at, like I said last night. | ||
| They articulated what they expect from a 30-day ceasefire, they articulated what they expect from a comprehensive peace. | ||
| They've said that at least three times this year at different meetings. | ||
| It's the United States position that has to be a little bit more flexible because we're also dealing with Ukraine and with the uh European Union. | ||
| So I guess we'll have to wait and see. | ||
| We're gonna take a look at Rerum Novar, and we'll see if there's any uh additional details here on Twitter. | ||
| Any breaking news. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| So what was supposed to take place today was a one-on-one meeting that, as I said, evolved into a four-on-four meeting, and then they were supposed to hold a luncheon and then a press conference. | ||
| The meeting went on for three hours. | ||
| It went on two hours over the allotted time. | ||
| They then held the press conference, and it looks like the luncheon was canceled. | ||
| So I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad sign, but the lunch got canceled. | ||
| It says now Trump is returning to the White House immediately. | ||
| Okay, and this is just recapping the press conference. | ||
| Trump says there's no deal until there's a deal. | ||
| So, as I was saying before, the victory condition for Putin here was to achieve this diplomatic thaw without giving anything in return, and that's basically what happened. | ||
| There is no ceasefire, there's no agreement. | ||
| There doesn't even seem to be a concrete plan for a second round of talks. | ||
| So, what was really achieved here? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| They haven't said both sides have said it was constructive and positive. | ||
| They met for a very long time. | ||
| At the same time, they canceled the lunch. | ||
| And there's nothing. | ||
| There is there is no agreement. | ||
| There is no future talk scheduled. | ||
| So Putin achieved what he came here to get. | ||
| He got the meeting, he came on American soil, shook hands with the president. | ||
| He got the photo op. | ||
| It's a major win for Putin. | ||
| As far as Trump is concerned, and I said this last night, I think this is purely for him for the photo op. | ||
| This does nothing for the American side. | ||
| The only way to stop this war is to put additional pressure on Russia. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| By arming Ukraine, additional sanctions on Russia. | ||
| Otherwise, it's an unequivocal surrender, an unconditional surrender. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| You either need to fight the war and win the war, or make it such that the cost of continuing is such that Putin will come to an agreement, which Trump seems unwilling to do because we're just out of options. | ||
| Short of arming Ukraine with long-range weapon systems that can hit Moscow, short of secondary sanctions that are going to hurt uh the prospect of a trade deal with India and China, Short of putting restrictions on Russian energy that are going to hurt our economy. | ||
| There's nothing else we can do to Russia. | ||
| Every option is unattractive to escalate against Russia. | ||
| We're unwilling to do any of these things. | ||
| So Trump has been issuing these ultimatums saying if Putin does not come to the table, we're going to put the screws in. | ||
| But we're unwilling to escalate. | ||
| There are no options left on the table for us to escalate where we're okay with the cost or the risk. | ||
| So this is where Trump, in order to save face a couple of weeks ago to back down from his ultimatum, said, okay, well, we don't need to impose secondary sanctions because we have this meeting with Putin. | ||
| But that does nothing for us. | ||
| Putin gets to come here and then go home and continue the war. | ||
| Maybe this is all premature. | ||
| Maybe there was some breakthrough. | ||
| But if there was, we don't have it on paper yet. | ||
| So Trump said he's calling NATO, he's calling Ukraine, he's going to run it by them. | ||
| Maybe there'll be a forthcoming meeting. | ||
| We don't know that. | ||
| But as it stands, the war in Ukraine is still active. | ||
| But Putin got the meeting anyway. | ||
| So, you know, you just got to wonder what is the end game here on the part of the United States. | ||
| They should just cut the aid to Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine does not want to give up the territory. | ||
| Let the front line collapse. | ||
| Cut the aid, let Ukraine fail, and let them deal with Russia. | ||
| If you really want the war to end. | ||
| But of course, we're not privy to all the negotiations behind the scenes. | ||
| We don't know what Trump is saying to Zelensky. | ||
| We don't know the conversation with Putin. | ||
| I guess we'll have to see what happens next week if there's any announcements or I'm sure there will be leaks. | ||
| I'm sure there'll be uh some planted story in the coming days that will tell us generally what happened during the meeting. | ||
| But as of right now, we just have no idea. | ||
| But it seems like it was a whole lot of nothing. | ||
| Seems like it was a big farce. | ||
| And we got another update. | ||
| They're gonna let the DC police remain in control of the police department. | ||
| Okay, that's not really related. | ||
| All right, well, that's your Trump Putin summit. | ||
| Not a whole lot going on. | ||
| Yeah, I guess that's it. | ||
| I guess that's it. | ||
| A whole lot of nothing. | ||
| We'll see if there's another live feed. | ||
| Yeah, no, all the live feeds are over. | ||
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| So the whole thing was just a photo op. | ||
| I said this last night. | ||
| I said the whole thing is just going to be a photo op. | ||
| This is about Trump saving face. | ||
| This is about performing diplomacy. | ||
| It's there's just nothing real here. | ||
| There's nothing real here. | ||
| You know, nothing, as far as we can tell, has fundamentally changed here. | ||
| And they can go up and say that they made a lot of progress, but they don't have a deal. | ||
| They don't have an agreement. | ||
| And it's very likely, by the way, that the Russians came here with no intention of making a deal. | ||
| That the Russians came here really in order to lead the Americans on. | ||
| And to make commitments and make promises. | ||
| And even Putin said in his remarks, he said, we'll have to hope that the Europeans won't do anything provocative that might sabotage the agreement or the progress that has been made. | ||
| Putin is still trying to split apart the Western Alliance. | ||
| He's still with that little barb that was thrown in there. | ||
| And it's not to say that there aren't legitimate divisions within the Western Alliance, but for him to say that, sort of interesting. | ||
| And then even at the end, when he said, maybe we'll meet in Moscow, talk about a humiliation ritual. | ||
| Let's meet in Moscow this time. | ||
| He got everything he wanted. | ||
| So he'll go home to Russia and they'll continue their advance. | ||
| I think. | ||
| And this whole thing seems to have just been a big ceremony, like everything else so far in this administration. | ||
| Here's the bottom line. | ||
| Throughout the entire year. | ||
| The bottom line throughout the whole year is that Trump is always making these big threats and big ultimatums and big demands, and he does not follow through. | ||
| He said to China if you put reciprocal tariffs on us, you're going to regret it. | ||
| And China did it. | ||
| And it was the White House begging for China to negotiate. | ||
| And Trump said he would destroy the Houthis. | ||
| And after 30 days, they gave up and said, oh, they're very tough fighters. | ||
| We don't want any more of this. | ||
| He said Iran had 60 days to make an agreement. | ||
| And outside of the 60 days, it was Israel that bombed Iran. | ||
| And two weeks later, Trump came in after being pressured by them to intervene. | ||
| Here's the point. | ||
| Whatever you think about these various things. | ||
| Obviously, I don't believe we should have bombed Iran or bombed the Houthis or anything like that. | ||
| Whatever you think about any of this stuff. | ||
| As a leader, you cannot make commitments like this. | ||
| You cannot draw red lines that you're not willing to enforce. | ||
| Deterrence is the law of the jungle on the world stage. | ||
| And what is inherent in deterrence is credibility. | ||
| It's not just the capability to use force. | ||
| It is the credibility that you're willing to use force. | ||
| It's both of those things. | ||
| That is the bedrock of American hegemony. | ||
| That is the bedrock of global security. | ||
| It is deterrence, and it is founded on the capability to use force, but the credibility that you're willing to use it when you say you're going to. | ||
| For Trump to constantly make these ultimatums and demands, you better make an agreement. | ||
| You better do this or that. | ||
| You've got 60 days, 50 days, 10 days, and don't follow up. | ||
| And you can see it. | ||
| This isn't just me saying this. | ||
| Trump gave an ultimatum to Putin. | ||
| He said, you have 50 days. | ||
| Putin said, I don't care. | ||
| Trump said, okay, well, now you have 10 days. | ||
| And Putin said, I don't care. | ||
| And then Trump at the last minute sent Steve Whitkoff to Moscow and begged for a meeting. | ||
| And finally, the White House agreed to the meeting that Putin had sought since the beginning of the year. | ||
| And Trump said, oh, we don't need to follow through on our threat. | ||
| Oh, remember that 10-day ultimatum? | ||
| We don't actually need to do anything because Putin agreed to have a meeting. | ||
| They actually requested a meeting. | ||
| So do you think Putin takes Trump seriously? | ||
| When Trump says, you've got 50 days, 10 days, please meet with us. | ||
| Oh, okay, we don't need to enforce it. | ||
| We have a meeting coming up. | ||
| Putin does not take Trump seriously. | ||
| And what is Trump going to do? | ||
| What can he reasonably do? | ||
| Russia has all the cards here. | ||
| They have the advantage in drones. | ||
| They in tactics and in equipment. | ||
| They have the advantage in artillery. | ||
| They have the advantage in personnel. | ||
| They have the advantage in tactics. | ||
| And they're winning. | ||
| So unless Trump is willing to give another major round of aid to Ukraine, which he certainly does not want to do, unless Trump is willing to give them another 50 billion dollar package or give them long-range missiles. | ||
| And they're going to need to escalate because Ukraine doesn't have the manpower unless Trump is willing to really escalate it economically or militarily. | ||
| There's no options here. | ||
| So I guess we'll have to wait and see next week if anything at all happened today. | ||
| Because it seems like nothing happened. | ||
| It seems like nothing happened, actually. | ||
| And of course, Trump had to maybe drag it out and maybe go on a press conference afterward. | ||
| This is speculation. | ||
| Maybe Trump felt he needed to go in the press conference and say, we're so close to a deal and all this kind of stuff. | ||
| When in reality, maybe nothing like that actually occurred. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| We'll have to see what happens next week. | ||
| But that is our Trump Russia summit. | ||
| Doesn't seem very, doesn't seem great. | ||
| Gonna be honest with you, doesn't seem like they achieved much of anything. | ||
| But like I said, we're gonna watch it and we'll see what happens next week. | ||
| But that's it for this stream. | ||
| Thank you guys for tuning in. | ||
| That's all I got for you. | ||
| I wish I had more, but there's no content. | ||
| I wish I had more to tell you, more to give you, but I mean you we saw the press conference. | ||
| We waited all day for that. | ||
| I waited all day. | ||
| We waited like four hours for this. | ||
| Content cucked. | ||
| Let's see what we got from re-rum Novarum. | ||
| The negotiations have ended. | ||
| Okay, so it's over. | ||
| It ended early. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Are they going to air? | ||
| There's supposed to be an interview with Brad Bayer. | ||
| Is that uh gonna be released anytime soon? | ||
| God, I'm not gonna wait for it. | ||
| I don't care that much. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, that's all I got for you. | ||
| That's my coverage. | ||
| I am gonna do a show tonight. | ||
| Later tonight, so stay tuned for that. | ||
| I'll be back later and we'll recap. | ||
| If there's an interview, maybe we'll watch it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| There's no news happening today. | ||
| This is like the slowest, most brutal newsweek ever. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| Maybe I'll do a show, maybe I won't. | ||
| If I do, maybe I'll watch the interview later. | ||
| I don't know my plan as yet for today. | ||
| So stay tuned to Telegram, stay tuned to Twitter. | ||
| I'll let you know. | ||
| I might do a show. | ||
| There's really nothing to cover here. | ||
| You know, I we talked about it a little bit. | ||
| There's nothing really, no updates. | ||
| So I might do a show and do a little recap. | ||
| I might not. | ||
| If there's an interview, maybe I'll cover that instead. | ||
| But I will let you know on Telegram. | ||
| I'll let you know on Twitter. | ||
| For now, that's all I got for you. | ||
| Thank you for tuning in. | ||
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