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Unknown A
Somebody doesn't wanna make a deal. And if somebody doesn't wanna make a deal, I think that person won't be around very long.
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Unknown B
I don't know what in the hell Vadimr Zolnsky thinks he's doing at this point. Honestly, I don't understand it. The president of Ukraine seems to believe that he continues to chide President Trump and then say rather untethered things about the war, that somehow this is going to earn him the support of America in some way. So President Trump has made very clear he wants a ceasefire, he wants this war ended as soon as possible. And meanwhile, Zelensky is out there preaching that the war is never going to end. At the end of the war is still very, very far away. What does he think Trump is gonna do? Of course President Trump is going to see that as a rebuke to him. Here'zelensky yesterday, he says an agreement to end the war is still very, very far away. And no one has started all these steps yet.
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Unknown B
The peace that we foresee in the future must be just, honest and most importantly, sustainable. Now, that, of course, was almost designed to earn President Trump's umbradge. President Trump immediately responded by saying he better not be right about the end of the war being far away. Here he was in a press conference yesterday.
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Unknown A
President Zelensky supposedly made a statement today in ap. I'm not a big fan of ap, so maybe it was an incorrect statement, but he said he thinks the war's going to go on for a long time and he better not be right about that.
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Unknown B
Okay, Trump then put out a statement on truth social, quote, this is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenky and America will not put up with it for much longer. It is what I was saying. This guy does not want there to be peace as long as he has America's backing. And Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelensky, stated flatly, they cannot do the job without the United States. Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking? And he ain't wrong about that. What are they thinking is in fact the question of the day. Trump went on to bang on Zelensky by suggesting that Zelensky really needs to switch his approach or he will be gone in short order.
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Unknown A
I think everybody has to get into a room, so to speak, and we have to make a deal. And the deal can be made very fast. It should not be that hard a deal to make. It could be made very fast. Now, maybe somebody doesn't want to make a deal. And if somebody doesn't want to make a deal, I think that person won't be around very long. That person will not be listened to very long. I gave Russia nothing except grief. I gave him nothing. I gave him sanctions and javelins. That's what I gave him. Obama gave them sheets. And you heard that statement before. It's a very famous Trump gave them javelins and Obama gave them sheets. And then they say how close I am to Russia.
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Unknown B
Again, President Trump does not want to be perceived as a sort of stand in for Vladimir Putin in all of this. Trump was ready to do the thing earlier last week. He was ready to do the thing. He wanted to sign, as I've said over and over and over, that rare earth's mineral deal. Why? Because the goal was to do with Zelensky what he's currently doing with Taiwan. Again, TSMC is the company in Taiwan that makes the semiconductors. Those semiconductors are now going to be made partially in the United States. Taiwan is going to invest via TSMC. TSMC, the company is going to be investing $100 in American domestic manufacturing of semiconductors that serves a dual purpose. One, it reachhore some key items that America wants and needs. And two, it also means that the United States is now invested in the continued success, health and prosperity of tsmc, which means more invested in Taiwan.
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Unknown B
Trump was trying to do that exact same thing with Ukraine. He didn't wanna issue an open security guarantee because the situation is too volatile. He just wanted the rare earth's minerals deal as a way, a wedge to get in. He openly said this during the press conference. He said it o he KE this close to just saying he was gonna give a security guarantee. That was effectively a caveat to the rare earth's minerals deal. And top Republicans are still hoping that Zelensky comes back to the table on that thing. I don't know what the hell Zelenky is doing. Seriously, as someone who would like to see Ukraine capable of standing up to Russian predations, I do not know what Zelensky is thinking here. A lot of uncertainty in the markets already and smart investors prepare ahead of time. Just like keeping a life jacket handy before setting salil.
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Unknown B
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Unknown B
They ask all of your questions and then when you feel secure diversify at least a little bit into precious metals. My friends over at Birch Gold According to Politico, congressional Republicans are signaling they want President Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimyir Zelensky to patch things up after a test. The Oval Office meeting cast significant doubt about the future of the U.S. ukraine relationship. GOP lawmakers on Monday sought to lower the temperature just days after the clash between the leaders sent shockwaves through Washington and Europe, with members of Trump'party expressing optimism the nations could still clinch a mineral steel to bolster U.S. backing for Ukraine. Sen. Majority Leader Johnn Thune said, quote, I just hope they get things back on track and that everybody will redouble their efforts. He said, this is historic opportunity, a potentially historic agreement. Obviously last week was a missed opportunity, but I think people are operating in good faith.
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Unknown B
I think we could get things back on the rails. Meanwhile, we'll see what President Trump has to say about all of this. In his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Lindsey Graham, who had blasted Zelenskyy on Friday, said, quote, I've told President Zelensky, do the minerals deal, see if we can get an arms package. We'll talk about a good ending of the war. That's the sequence. More he talks about security guarantees and the war is gonna be a long time away from ending. The harder his case will be. Speaker Johnson also defended Trump on Monday, but added, quote, I encourage, as I did over the weekend, President Zelensky to come back to the table and accept the deal that was proposed because that is the solution to get us out of this mess. And again, that's totally correct. That's totally correct. As I said yesterday on the show, there is a wide ranging belief that President Trump is attempting to rewrite America's power in the world by granting Spherars of influence to China or to Russia.
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Unknown B
That's not, I think, what he is doing. It's not what he was doing. President Trump has had a long standing belief that when America intervenes in places around the world, America gets repaid. He believed this about Kuwait and Iraq. And by the way, this is not a rare belief in American foreign policy history. When America supported Great Britain During World War II, the initial move towards supporting Great Britain was a program called Lend Lease in which the United States ended up with control of a huge number of very important British military bases. So the idea that America always gets nothing out of its foreign relations is just not true. What President Trump is attempting to do here makes perfect sense, which by the way, is why his perspective remains popular. So Harry Antton in CNN actually did some polling on this and he said, you know, shockingly to Democrats at least Joe Biden was wildly unpopular on Ukraine and Trump is pretty popular on Ukraine.
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Unknown C
You look at Joe Biden back in 2024, he was 22 points underwater. Holy cow. You look at Donald Trump, it's just a different planet entirely. I mean, the gulf between these two is wider than the Gulf of America or Mexico, depending on which side of the isisle you're stand on. He, he's it. Plus two. So look, @ this particular point, Americans are giving Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. He's doing considerably better than Joe Biden was doing on the handling of the Russia Ukraine conflict. And so, on this simple question, I think Americans are saying, okay, Donald Trump's.
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Unknown B
Doing all right on this, okay? Now why do Americans feel that way? Because what Americans want is the rational thing. They know the war isn't going anywhere. They want an off ram. Now Americans want an off ram. Americans like foreign policy off rams. There's one thing Americans really like a lot worse than foreign policy off frmss. And it's not even endless war, America. They're like endless war. In order of things Americans hate. They hate endless war. And then even more than endless war, they hate ignominious surrender. They really don't like ignominious surrender. Americans were humiliated by Joe Biden'sulll out from Afghanistan. They hated Joe Biden for it. Look at his approval ratings. They sank into the mire. What does that mean? It means that while Americans do not want to continue to fund the Ukrainian war indefinitely, they also do not wanna see pictures of Russian soldiers strolling through Kyiv.
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Unknown B
That is not something they want. They do not want Vladimir Putin standing on Vladimir Zelensky's body in the middle of the street. That's not something they want. Which is why the Trump administration move. I think it's a pressure tactic to get Zelensky to come back to the table and sign the rare earth minerals deal. So I think Zelensky really should do it. Well, that's all for now, folks. Don't forget to, like, subscribe and comment your thoughts down below. Be sure to check out all of the other great content on my channel. I'll see you here next time.