Ben Harnwell

Let me start with this Hugo Lowell story in The Guardian, because that is it.

It's it's it's mentioned very, very subtly and the language is toned down.

But this is a fundamental shift for those who have eyes to see that the suggestion coming out from the White House now that President Trump is just going to say, you know, as you said, Steve, in your words, you know, you've got one and you've got one another's.

I'm going to pull back now.

The official, according to this position, the informal position, is that Presidents Putin and Zelensky need to sit down and have a bilateral, at which point, after which point, President Trump will then come back on board and try and get involved with this trilateral meeting with Russia.

with himself.

That's simply not going to happen.

This is just diplomatic speak for President Trump doing what the war room audience has been on its knees begging for, which is basically to put his cards down on the table, say fold, I'm out.

And that is the best thing anyone could hope for.

If they want peace.

Now, you said a few things, and I'm just going to go over them quickly.

I know we've got a break coming on in a couple of weeks.

Phony Maloney, you mentioned her.

I tweeted on this.

I put it out, excuse me, on Getter earlier.

The bridge, the 16 billion, don't forget, at least a tenth of the size of the economy in the United States.

So this equivalent 16 billion dollar bridge between the peninsula and Sicily.

If just to make the point absolutely explicit, if she really thought that Russia represented an existential threat to Italy, she'd be putting that money in tanks and not on a bridge to nowhere, which is due to the dodgy accounting at which Italians excel.

That is going to be considered as part of their 5%.

NATO defense commitments, which just shows the absolute total hoax that this is.