Ian Bremmer
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He's the last person you'd want to negotiate with Europe, but he might be the only person you want negotiating in the Middle East.
In a weird way, his style, his transactional nature, look, I don't think he cares about Bibi and Bibi's gonna find this out.
But in a weird way, he speaks the same language
And it works there.
It doesn't work in a lot of other parts of the world.
But it weirdly works there.
It's not even close.
No, which is why he alone might be the person
which may in its own way, why the world sort of like, okay, you can get this done, go do it, right?
And he did it.
Is this Nixon to China?
Will this be like that kind of foreign policy victory in his legacy?
I don't know how you unwind it.
I've been in plenty of conversations
with a certain monarch who touches that West Bank.
I mean, some things, the toothpaste is out of the tube.
If Bibi, well, nobody's done more damage to Israel's reputation in the United States than Bibi Netanyahu.
Left and right for we can say some of it is on him for sure.
Whatever it is, he has not helped the situation, particularly in his very divisive figure, particularly in, I think, how he handled Obama.
It feels as if, let me ask you this, is Trump going to be fine if the Europeans take the lead in helping the Ukrainians?