Anne Applebaum

will have some influence.

There's a lot of, you know, maybe...

you know, maybe false hope.

I think there's, you know, there's a fear that a U.S.-Russia condominium, you know, kind of U.S.-Russia deal would be bad for everybody and we'd like to avoid it.

So I didn't think people want some kind of huge break with the United States.

But yeah, I mean, the United States is not going to be able to dictate what happens in Ukraine, and they certainly won't be able to dictate a bad solution.

And by bad solution, remember, it's

What a bad solution means that Ukraine is so badly weakened that Russia can invade again.

That's like that's the bad solution.

And I don't think the U.S.

is going to be able to dictate that, even if that's what they're you know, even if that's what they want.

So, no, the U.S.

doesn't has fewer and fewer cards and is going to have less and less influence as time goes on.

I think that's true.

Right.

So the cryptography track was something I started in.

This is regarding our previous conversation.

I started it a few months ago just because I felt like there were all these news stories that flashed by, you know, people being pardoned after making donations to the president's cryptocurrency fund or something.

or regulation being lifted or regulation not being enforced.

And I just felt like someone should keep track of it somewhere.