Fred Fleitz
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3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Feb
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Of course, Putin could keep fighting and keep wrecking his economy and isolating his country. or you may see an opportunity with Trump to get out of this war and to set Ukraine up in a situation where he retains its freedom. Putin can live with it on his borders. That that means You know, we're not going to agree to Ukraine being disarmed, but Ukraine will agree to be neutral.
Ukraine won't be put in NATO, at least for the next 10 to 25 years. We won't raise that issue. I mean, how do you twist Putin's arm? He has seen... Fairly invulnerable to sanctions. He'll subject his people to extreme levels of pain to maintain his policy. It's going to take personal diplomacy. And look, it's going to be tough. I don't know that we'll win this, but I think it's worth trying.
They've done significant damage to the Russian economy, but Russia is still able to sell its energy. And the problem with our strategy with Russia is that we've pushed Russia into the arms of China. And China is buying Russian energy and goods and probably providing funds to sustain the Russian economy. This is a huge threat to global security long term.
We need to break that growing nexus between Moscow and Beijing, which also includes Iran and North Korea, I might add. And that's another reason why ending this war is so essential. And I don't think we should give anything to Putin other than what I just said. And I don't like the idea. that Putin wouldn't be forced to give back all the territory he's taken.
But I think we should still keep it on the table that someday we're going to ask Russia to return the territory, maybe after Putin leaves office.
I think it's a concern. That's why Ukraine has to be fully armed to and ready to prevent any Russian invasion. And we have to have peacekeepers along the border to monitor a ceasefire.
And I mean, there's a concern that there might be an agreement that the Trump administration, a future president wouldn't support it or or maybe Putin would defer to Trump, but would invade after Trump leaves office. Steps will have to be taken to submit this deal.
And I think that means bringing Russia into the community of nations and finding ways to somehow address the issues that Ukraine has with Russia. It's going to be a hard slog.
Well, there's several things going on right now. The Trump administration has called for sending European and non-European peacekeepers to Ukraine. Europe is talking about sending something different. They want to send a deterrence force that would use military force to enforce a ceasefire and other peace agreement.
Putin is never going to agree to NATO ground troops in Ukraine that could attack Russia. That's not going to happen. Europe has to stop talking about that. But I think we can get Putin to agree to peacekeepers. Now, look, in classic peacekeeping, each of the parties get to decide what nations contribute to peacekeeping.
I don't think Putin's going to agree to British troops on his border, but he may agree to Irish troops. He may agree to Egyptian troops, troops from Nepal. There are many nations with experience in peacekeeping who I think would be acceptable to Ukraine and Russia. And look, this has to be negotiated.
I think the minerals deal is significant because it's something Trump wanted. And he thinks it will be in court for the U.S. economy. It represents the U.S. being paid back for our military assistance. And it was a sign of good faith by Zelensky to give this to him. I know people have said that this is some kind of a security assistance or it will shield Ukraine from invading.
I'm not really putting it that way because I think this will take a long time to implement. And in the short term, it's not going to make any difference. What it does be is that Zelensky is saying to Trump, I'm prepared to play ball with you.
Some of them are in Russian territory, but they're spread throughout Ukraine. And if they're actually there, there's more than enough rare earth minerals and energy to extract from the territory that Ukraine currently holds.
Well, you know, we've seen some encouraging news in Gaza, but we're far from settling this war between Hamas and Israel. I think because of Trump's election and leadership, this is why we... the number of hostages were released by Hamas. And I might add that Hamas made critical concessions just after Trump won the election concessions it would not make to the Biden administration.
And I think that's because of Trump's leadership and frankly, respect they have for Trump. I forget how many hostages have gotten out. We're now looking at the second phase, which would mean the rest of the hostage would be released. But that also would require Israel pulling out of Gaza, which it's not prepared to do. Israel is trying to extend second phase of the peace agreement.
Hamas is resisting. Trump said there's going to be severe consequences if Hamas doesn't agree. U.S. negotiators have spoken directly to Hamas, which is really unprecedented, to try to find an agreement to get the hostages out to stop the conflict. It's important to Trump to end this conflict, but not on terms that endangers Israel's security.
officials because of the risk that the U.S. may use as an opportunity to find out who these people are, where they live and maybe capture them and take them to Guantanamo, which, you know, many of our colleagues would like to do because they're terrorists living in luxury in Qatar. And I know people are saying we should negotiate with terrorists. Human lives are at stake here.
I have no problem with this. We have to get these hostages out while they're alive because they won't be alive for much longer.
Well, as you know, President Trump put out an audacious plan where the U.S. would take ownership of Gaza and rebuild it and move the population out to other areas. And he thinks that this would make Gaza into one of the leading tourist destinations in the Mediterranean. Well, predictably, just about every Arab nation threw a fit over this, said they're not going to cooperate.
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