Oliver Crook

Really, it's a sort of re-engagement of the United States in the potential negotiations for peace in Ukraine, possible support for Ukraine.

You'll remember that the United States effectively basically walked away from all of the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

Obviously, the United States has been largely distracted by the situation in the Middle East in recent months.

We heard it from Donald Trump last night, saying effectively that the United States is going to put its attention back on the conflict in Ukraine, back on Russia and Ukraine, and try potentially to bring that to resolution.

There's also this effort by European leaders and their militaries to potentially have this demining mission that would go to the Strait of Hormuz.

But they say they can really only do that once they understand this peace deal and once there is, you know, an actually durable peace deal.

There's also a real question about whether or not some of these leaders, like Georgia Maloney, has suggested that she doesn't really want to participate in anything until there's a full deal that also includes Lebanon.

So these are some of the concerns I think the G7 leaders will be having today.

There's also this effort by European leaders and their militaries to potentially have this demining mission that would go to the Strait of Hormuz.

But they say they can really only do that once they understand this peace deal and once there is, you know, an actually durable peace deal.

There's also a real question about whether or not some of these leaders, like Georgia Maloney, has suggested that she doesn't really want to participate in anything until there's a full deal that also includes Lebanon.

So these are some of the concerns I think the G7 leaders will be having today.

We know that it could involve a sort of demining mission that the French and the UK have said that they would sort of put forward.

But you should also remember that the Europeans are involved in the sanctions regime against Iran.

And we heard from the E3, these are the leaders of Germany, UK, France and Italy, saying that actually they'll be open to putting down some of their own sanctions in accordance with this deal.

There's a big question of how the G7 can sort of contribute to this, particularly the Europeans.

You heard it from the host of these proceedings, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, who's really said it from the very beginning of the war that the Europeans would have a sort of military role in the day after, and sort of after a ceasefire.

So the question is, how do you flesh that out?

How are the Europeans going to be involved?

Everyone here will sigh sort of a great relief that there is a deal.