Michael Weiss

absolutely, you know, ecstatic at developments in Syria, because that's weakening their strategic adversary, and they're hopeful that it's going to redeploy or, you know, sap even further attention away from what's happening on their soil. There's also a weird kind of like resignation about Trump in Ukraine. I mean, I have to tell you, like, in the last few weeks, what I'm hearing from inside the

absolutely, you know, ecstatic at developments in Syria, because that's weakening their strategic adversary, and they're hopeful that it's going to redeploy or, you know, sap even further attention away from what's happening on their soil. There's also a weird kind of like resignation about Trump in Ukraine. I mean, I have to tell you, like, in the last few weeks, what I'm hearing from inside the

absolutely, you know, ecstatic at developments in Syria, because that's weakening their strategic adversary, and they're hopeful that it's going to redeploy or, you know, sap even further attention away from what's happening on their soil. There's also a weird kind of like resignation about Trump in Ukraine. I mean, I have to tell you, like, in the last few weeks, what I'm hearing from inside the

how the biden administration really didn't want to win this war it wanted to sort of manage the conflict how an overriding fear of russia's loss of the war in ukraine and also collapse of putin's regime is what's guided everything kathy young wrote about this in the bulwark today i'll put it in the show notes yeah and this this is gonna come out i mean i you know knives have been sharpened over the last several years and i think they're being unsheathed now and i mean i'm gonna tell you like you know

how the biden administration really didn't want to win this war it wanted to sort of manage the conflict how an overriding fear of russia's loss of the war in ukraine and also collapse of putin's regime is what's guided everything kathy young wrote about this in the bulwark today i'll put it in the show notes yeah and this this is gonna come out i mean i you know knives have been sharpened over the last several years and i think they're being unsheathed now and i mean i'm gonna tell you like you know

how the biden administration really didn't want to win this war it wanted to sort of manage the conflict how an overriding fear of russia's loss of the war in ukraine and also collapse of putin's regime is what's guided everything kathy young wrote about this in the bulwark today i'll put it in the show notes yeah and this this is gonna come out i mean i you know knives have been sharpened over the last several years and i think they're being unsheathed now and i mean i'm gonna tell you like you know

Jake Sullivan, who gets better press than anybody I've ever seen as a government official. I mean, it's like you can't write about him without saying lantern jaw Jake Sullivan, who on Monday masters the topography of Inner Mongolia and on Tuesday, you know, can tell you the trading value of the yen. I think that that sort of hagiographic style is going out of fashion real quick.

Jake Sullivan, who gets better press than anybody I've ever seen as a government official. I mean, it's like you can't write about him without saying lantern jaw Jake Sullivan, who on Monday masters the topography of Inner Mongolia and on Tuesday, you know, can tell you the trading value of the yen. I think that that sort of hagiographic style is going out of fashion real quick.

Jake Sullivan, who gets better press than anybody I've ever seen as a government official. I mean, it's like you can't write about him without saying lantern jaw Jake Sullivan, who on Monday masters the topography of Inner Mongolia and on Tuesday, you know, can tell you the trading value of the yen. I think that that sort of hagiographic style is going out of fashion real quick.

So he's always going off about something.

So he's always going off about something.

So he's always going off about something.

It's driven by several things. Number one, they think they know Trump because they've had to deal with him before. There's an element in Ukraine that says, well, you know, remember this guy gave us Javelin anti-tank missiles when Obama wouldn't. He sanctioned Nord Stream 2. There are actors in place. I mean, you mentioned Rubio and Waltz. Kellogg is an interesting character too.

It's driven by several things. Number one, they think they know Trump because they've had to deal with him before. There's an element in Ukraine that says, well, you know, remember this guy gave us Javelin anti-tank missiles when Obama wouldn't. He sanctioned Nord Stream 2. There are actors in place. I mean, you mentioned Rubio and Waltz. Kellogg is an interesting character too.

It's driven by several things. Number one, they think they know Trump because they've had to deal with him before. There's an element in Ukraine that says, well, you know, remember this guy gave us Javelin anti-tank missiles when Obama wouldn't. He sanctioned Nord Stream 2. There are actors in place. I mean, you mentioned Rubio and Waltz. Kellogg is an interesting character too.

The Ukrainians respect him. They see him as sort of a Cold War hawk.

The Ukrainians respect him. They see him as sort of a Cold War hawk.

The Ukrainians respect him. They see him as sort of a Cold War hawk.

I mean, there is a great deal of wariness about people like Gabbard. Patel doesn't factor in for them. J.D. Vance, though, is the problem. And you'll notice when Zelensky gave an interview to The New Yorker several weeks ago, it's unfathomable for Zelensky to say anything untoward about any American official. But he said that Vance was, quote, too radical.

I mean, there is a great deal of wariness about people like Gabbard. Patel doesn't factor in for them. J.D. Vance, though, is the problem. And you'll notice when Zelensky gave an interview to The New Yorker several weeks ago, it's unfathomable for Zelensky to say anything untoward about any American official. But he said that Vance was, quote, too radical.