Michael Weiss

I mean, a rough draft, but basically the same thing.

And then it's leaked to Axios as this co-authored thing by Witkoff and Kushner in Miami.

I mean, no, no.

I mean, this was a Russian info op and it was laundered through a guy who seems to really take a shine to Steve Witkoff and is one of the only few people I know in either media or policy circles who does.

I mean, everyone else thinks Witkoff is a bumbling moron.

But no, Barack Reed, I mean, that's his guy.

So, I mean, look, more power to him.

He's got a source, you know.

It's just a source, I think, that's leading him wildly astray on many, many things.

I mean, look, you know, our allies exist to be bullied and hectored and wrangled into submission.

This is this has been the kind of the guiding force of Trump's term to our enemies exist to be courted and cultivated and perhaps incentivized to becoming our new friends.

Right.

So, you know, there's this whole thing with the UK, which refuses to allow its air bases to

to be used for any kind of war in Iran.

Donald Trump tweets or truth socials wildly about that.

And, you know, he was in favor of the handover of Chagos.

Now he's not.

I think everyone is quite aware that they carry no weight with Trump in terms of trying to persuade him to do something that he has otherwise set his mind on.

on doing and everyone treads very very lightly right you know there's a lot of hatred and understandable in one sense but i think also a little unfair in another toward the secretary general of nato mark ruta i have to understand mark ruta's background is in hr my wife's background is in hr and from an hr perspective which is a line i hear very often in my household

what mark roth is trying to do what mark roth is trying to do his job is to keep nato alive together right and he's he's bending the knee he's talking about daddy uh he's he's flattering and cajoling uh trump as best he can because in the next three years there is a credible risk with donald trump as president that nato would cease to exist in all that name