Ian Bremmer

I give him two weeks.

And that's it.

He said that three separate times.

Now he's not going to say 10 separate times.

So ultimately, if Putin's not going to really, you know, engage.

then I think Trump's going to move on.

And he's likely to move on and say, I've washed my hands.

I tried.

And the Ukrainians and the Russians both aren't willing to make this happen.

I don't think he'll cut off Ukrainian support.

I think he will provide intelligence.

He'll allow the Ukrainians to buy military weaponry from the U.S.

He'll see that the Europeans are spending most of the money.

The NATO summit will be successful.

He's not going to pull out of NATO.

So it's not the worst case scenario for Ukraine.

It's not the worst case scenario for NATO, where Trump does a deal with Putin and ignores the Europeans and the Ukrainians.

But ultimately, it's someone else has to do this.

Now, you mentioned Paul Merlucki.

I do think that there are a lot of people with a lot of power that are involved in the military industrial technological complex that are trying to make sure that new spend by the U.S.