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George Barros

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

I don't think they will at this point, but do the right thing.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

Seize the Russian assets that are sitting in Belgium.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

And by the Europeans, I really mean the Belgians would do that, the Danes would do that, or not the Danes, the Netherlands, they would do that.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

Yeah.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

Because they really don't want to do that.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

And they would use that to rebuild the arsenal of democracy to re-kit Europe for all the things that we said in Ukraine and use Russian money for it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

But we'll see.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

We've got to stop the Russian advances cold, man.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

I'm confident about this.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

Putin is not getting accurate reports from his military apparatus.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

He's not getting good intelligence.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

He's not getting accurate reports.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

And we know this because General Gerasimov, that is the chief of the Russian general staff, is giving inflated reports.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

I mean, the Russian general staff and the Russian MOD, they have these SIDREPs they publish, they're public, and they talk about towns and villages and things that they see as a battlefield progress.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

And, you know, here at the Institute, we're constantly verifying these things, looking into the data, you know, collecting satellite images.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

And some of them are true, sure, but a lot of them are false.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

And, you know, it was really interesting that in late November, early December, we had this Russian Putin announcement.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

We seized Kupinsk and Kharkiv, this operationally significant town near the international border.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

And then the Ukrainians conduct a counterattack.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | December 27th, 2025: Why This Year of War Rewrote the Ukraine Playbook & Asia’s Strategic Crossroads

They retake large portions of the town.