Kurt Mills

Lone Wolf can be good or bad, but they have nuclear weapons, they're a proud civilization, 11 time zones, and I think it's incumbent upon the United States to work pragmatically with them.

They're not going anywhere.

And I think what was very interesting about Putin, it's been well observed in interviews with Carlson,

etc., is how sort of melancholic and preoccupied with history he is.

He talked again this week about the collapse after the Cold War, and he sort of signaled, you know, all this thinking in the early 90s, none of it came to anything, this sort of Fukuyamist fantasy about the nations getting along.

It didn't happen.

This is a realist.

This is a stone-cold-hearted man, no doubt.

But it's somebody, I think, fundamentally the United States—

can do business with if it prioritizes his own national interests as opposed to the endless indulgence of histrionic Europeans.

Well, the Secretary doesn't appear to be able to give up the old religion.

As you are well aware, in the first term, the now Secretary of State was the key interlocutor with the administration selling the new President Trump back in 17, 18, 19 on some of the most harebrained schemes for Latin America.

Members of Trump's first team, namely Mr. Bolton and Mr. Pompeo,

We're very zealous on this.

There was a bit of an abortive effort to do that.

Everyone remembers the Juan Guaido episode.

And so there was a lot of hope that this was kind of behind us.

There are elements, you know, even members of President Trump's club, this Harry Sargent character.

as well as Rick Grinnell, who wanted to be Secretary of State by most reporting, who wanted to do a deal, basically, with Maduro.

Maduro is a sort of, you know, Timpah dictator in South America, but not necessarily a major threat to U.S.