Ned Price
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147 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 21 Jun
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that he doesn't intend to meet with President Zelensky, that he is willing to stand up President Zelensky, but he didn't want to also, at the same time, stand up President Trump.
And so by disaggregating them and potentially suggesting, you know, maybe Volodymyr and I will get together first.
And if that goes well, we'll bring you into it.
That's just his stall tactic.
And I would actually be surprised
if a meeting between Ukraine and Russia at the leader level materializes over the coming weeks.
And even Russian media is starting to say the issue was broached as to whether there could be more senior level contacts.
It's very, very noncommittal.
And I don't think that's
a very good sign.
So I think the task that's between Russia and Ukraine, if there's a trilateral following that, great.
I think that will be to certainly Ukraine's benefit and to Europe's benefit.
But I think the real task between the United States and Europe and Ukraine over the short term is to work out these security guarantees and what exactly that looks like, what the United States is going to contribute.
here again is a concern because the security guarantees in in one sense that's actually the easy easier part of the equation uh we are really negotiating between and among our allies and partners ukraine europe um and others russia shouldn't get a veto over what security guarantees ukraine gets but um here too the trump administration might see otherwise tragically the real difficult question comes with the idea of land and territory
And on one level, you can guarantee a really terrible deal and that will just be tantamount to surrender.
If you're guaranteeing Russia's permanent possession of 20 or 20 plus percent of Ukrainian territory, along with no NATO, along with no military, along with potentially a changing government, that guarantee isn't worth anything and it's not something we should be pushing for.
So really the territorial question is going to be the more difficult one.
I think over the longer term, Ben, I think Europe, despite the happy face they put on, and I should say the vast majority of these European leaders see President Trump as a Bulgarian.
They go there and they stroke his ego because they know they have to.
They're holding their noses.
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