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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, very very dramatic developments taking place. I don't want
to jump the gun. Trump doesn't want to jump the gun.
Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said, Look, I don't
want people to get too excited about this, but there
was a dramatic breakthrough that took place yesterday between Vladimir Putin,
(00:33):
President Trump and Ukrainian leader Voladimir Zolensky. So here is
now the absolute latest. And I just got to say
this right out of the gate. If Trump can pull
this off, and he appears to be close, they give
him the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, really, this Wow,
(00:55):
you want to talk? I mean that this, this will
be one of his great crowning achievements. So, as you know,
today is tariff Day. Tariffs now are being implemented on
seventy countries. There is now going to be a new
tariff regime to protect American industry, American manufacturing. But looming
(01:21):
behind all of these tariffs is a deadline that Trump
gave to Vladimir Putin, which expires tomorrow, and the deadline
is very clear. Either Vladimir Putin agrees the strong Man
of Russia, either he agrees to a ceasefire with Ukraine
(01:42):
and ending the war in Ukraine at least temporarily, or
Trump is going to level the Russian economy with massive sanctions,
secondary sanctions and tariffs on major countries that purchase Russian
oil and natural gas, and in particular, the two biggest
(02:04):
buyers of Russian oil and natural gas are China number
one and very close second India. Basically it's China and India.
There are other countries, but the two big players are
Beijing and New Delhi. Now this is the key point.
Trump has already implemented a twenty five percent tariff on India.
(02:31):
He now is going to add another twenty five percent
tariff on India because India is continuing to purchase Russian
oil and natural gas. In fact, what the Indian government
is doing, frankly, I think it's quite sleazy, to be honest,
is they are buying Russian oil and natural gas at
a cheap, below market price, and then they sell it
(02:56):
on the international market out of profit. They market it
up and they pucket the rest. And this is now
the as far as the war in Ukraine is concerned,
it is the sale of Russian energy, Russian oil and
Russian gas to China and India that is feeding and
(03:19):
fueling and monetizing funding Putin's war machine. This is why
Trump now is hitting the sanctions on Russian oil, Russian
natural gas. He wants to hit China, he wants to
hit India. If he can now cut off the money
supply to Russia's war machine, he will cut Putin off
(03:45):
at the knees economically, and essentially, if the oil and
gas dries up, if the money dries up, Putin can
no longer wage his war. I mean he can fight
for another three, four or five months, but essentially he
will The Russian military will not have the economic resources
(04:08):
to continue to prosecute the war in Ukraine. So it
is an economic body blow to Putin, to Russia and
to their war effort. Now, with this looming over Putin,
on top of the fact that Trump now has sent
billions of dollars in weaponry through the EU, through NATO,
(04:31):
through the Europeans, and they are now buying our weapons
and then giving them to the Ukrainians, things have now
changed in Moscow Suddenly it appears that Putin is more
amenable to a deal. And so yesterday, just two days
before the secondary sanctions on Russia were to kick in,
(04:57):
Putin received Steve whitt Cough, President Trump's US envoy, his
special envoy. They had a long three hour discussion. According
to the Russians, they said it was extremely positive, very constructive.
(05:17):
How the Russians described it as we conveyed certain signals
to the Trump administration, and the Trump administration conveyed certain
signals to us. In other words, wink wink, Let's make
a deal. Witkof then contacted Trump saying they're starting to
(05:39):
now give us concrete details on an end plan and
endgame to finish this scar once and for all. Apparently,
Trump then got on the phone with Zelensky. He discussed
the meeting with Zelensky. Here is now what Trump now
believes is about to happen. He has now told media
(06:02):
outlets that he is planning to meet Vladimir Putin face
to face sometime next week, end of the month at
the absolute latest. But he wants to do this, I think,
jumping and seizing on this momentum that he now wants
to do it as quickly as possible. He is going
(06:24):
to meet Putin next week, and then right after meeting
Putin mano amano, man to man, then there'll be a
trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin, and Zelenski. Now, Putin has
not met American president since the start of the war
(06:47):
in Ukraine. The fact that Putin and Trump now are
on the cusp of sitting down and just meeting each
other person to person is already huge news. But you
add to that the very real possibility that there's going
to be a trilateral summit, a meeting directly face to
(07:10):
face between Zelenski, Putin, and Trump. Here is now it's historic.
This is what my reading of the situation is. You
may agree, you may disagree. For President Trump to invest
now so much political capital and raising expectations saying he's
(07:33):
now gonna meet with Putin, it can only be because,
for whatever reason, behind the scenes, the Russians have made
significant concessions and the Ukrainians have made significant concessions that
they are now willing to meet at the diplomatic negotiating table.
(07:54):
For Putin to be willing to sit down with Zelenski,
for Zolensky to be willing to sit down with Putin
and for Trump now to put his full prestige on
the line to say, I'm want to come in now
as the closer. In other words, the two sides are
close enough. I'm going to come in now, We're going
(08:15):
to lock the doors, and we're coming out with a deal.
I can't read the evidence, Eddie any other way. For
Trump to just meet Putin for the sake of meeting him,
I think would weaken Trump. It would deplete his political capital.
I think it would come across as a failure on
his part. You don't throw the full weight of the
(08:37):
presidency unless you truly feel you are close to the
end of the road, you are close to a possible
negotiated settlement and some kind of a peace deal. Zolensky
would not meet with Putin unless he feels that there's
something he can sign. And Putin would not meet with Zelenski,
(08:58):
who he dismisses, unless he's willing to sign something on
a piece of paper. So listen now to President Trump.
Roll cut two, Mike.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We had some very good talks with President Putin today,
and there's a very good chance that we could be
ending the ending the round, ending the end of that road.
That road was long and continues to be long. But
there's a good chance that there will be meeting very soon.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So now he said, look, you know, nothing is set
in stone, it's not one hundred percent yet, but he said,
as he put it, there's a very very good chance
we're going to be meeting, and we're starting to approach,
as he put it, the end of a very long
war road. This war has gone on now for over
three years. You're just this year alone, twenty thousand Russians dead,
(09:58):
nine thousand Ukrainians. In total, over a million Russian and
Ukrainians have either died or been named in this war.
It is by far the worst war in Europe since
World War Two. It appears to me that Zelenski now
(10:18):
is willing to concede that Russia will ennex Crimea and
take eastern Ukraine about twenty percent of the country what's
called the Dawn bas and in exchange for that, Ukraine
will then have access to the European Union, Ukraine will
get a chance to rebuild its military, and Ukraine will
(10:42):
be able to break free from Russian control and dominance.
In other words, I think Ukraine is now willing to
accept eighty percent of Ukraine is better than no Ukraine,
and Putin now realizes he can't fight this war much longer.
It's time to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You're locked into Boston's bulldozer. The Kooner Report weekend edition.
The Voice of Boston WRKL,
Boston's Bulldozer operate seven days a week. The Kune Report
weekend edition w RKO, the Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, very very dramatic developments taking place. I don't want
to jump the gun. Trump doesn't want to jump the gun.
Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said, Look, I don't
want people to get too excited about this, but there
was a dramatic breakthrough that took place yesterday between Vladimir Putin,
(00:33):
President Trump and Ukrainian leader Voladimir Zolensky. So here is
now the absolute latest. And I just got to say
this right out of the gate. If Trump can pull
this off, and he appears to be close, they give
him the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, really, this Wow,
(00:55):
you want to talk? I mean that this, this will
be one of his great crowning achievements. So, as you know,
today is tariff Day. Tariffs now are being implemented on
seventy countries. There is now going to be a new
tariff regime to protect American industry, American manufacturing. But looming
(01:21):
behind all of these tariffs is a deadline that Trump
gave to Vladimir Putin, which expires tomorrow, and the deadline
is very clear. Either Vladimir Putin agrees the strong Man
of Russia, either he agrees to a ceasefire with Ukraine
(01:42):
and ending the war in Ukraine at least temporarily, or
Trump is going to level the Russian economy with massive sanctions,
secondary sanctions and tariffs on major countries that purchase Russian
oil and natural gas, and in particular, the two biggest
(02:04):
buyers of Russian oil and natural gas are China number
one and very close second India. Basically it's China and India.
There are other countries, but the two big players are
Beijing and New Delhi. Now this is the key point.
Trump has already implemented a twenty five percent tariff on India.
(02:31):
He now is going to add another twenty five percent
tariff on India because India is continuing to purchase Russian
oil and natural gas. In fact, what the Indian government
is doing, frankly, I think it's quite sleazy, to be honest,
is they are buying Russian oil and natural gas at
a cheap, below market price, and then they sell it
(02:56):
on the international market out of profit. They market it
up and they pucket the rest. And this is now
the as far as the war in Ukraine is concerned,
it is the sale of Russian energy, Russian oil and
Russian gas to China and India that is feeding and
(03:19):
fueling and monetizing funding Putin's war machine. This is why
Trump now is hitting the sanctions on Russian oil, Russian
natural gas. He wants to hit China, he wants to
hit India. If he can now cut off the money
supply to Russia's war machine, he will cut Putin off
(03:45):
at the knees economically, and essentially, if the oil and
gas dries up, if the money dries up, Putin can
no longer wage his war. I mean he can fight
for another three, four or five months, but essentially he
will The Russian military will not have the economic resources
(04:08):
to continue to prosecute the war in Ukraine. So it
is an economic body blow to Putin, to Russia and
to their war effort. Now, with this looming over Putin,
on top of the fact that Trump now has sent
billions of dollars in weaponry through the EU, through NATO,
(04:31):
through the Europeans, and they are now buying our weapons
and then giving them to the Ukrainians, things have now
changed in Moscow Suddenly it appears that Putin is more
amenable to a deal. And so yesterday, just two days
before the secondary sanctions on Russia were to kick in,
(04:57):
Putin received Steve whitt Cough, President Trump's US envoy, his
special envoy. They had a long three hour discussion. According
to the Russians, they said it was extremely positive, very constructive.
(05:17):
How the Russians described it as we conveyed certain signals
to the Trump administration, and the Trump administration conveyed certain
signals to us. In other words, wink wink, Let's make
a deal. Witkof then contacted Trump saying they're starting to
(05:39):
now give us concrete details on an end plan and
endgame to finish this scar once and for all. Apparently,
Trump then got on the phone with Zelensky. He discussed
the meeting with Zelensky. Here is now what Trump now
believes is about to happen. He has now told media
(06:02):
outlets that he is planning to meet Vladimir Putin face
to face sometime next week, end of the month at
the absolute latest. But he wants to do this, I think,
jumping and seizing on this momentum that he now wants
to do it as quickly as possible. He is going
(06:24):
to meet Putin next week, and then right after meeting
Putin mano amano, man to man, then there'll be a
trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin, and Zelenski. Now, Putin has
not met American president since the start of the war
(06:47):
in Ukraine. The fact that Putin and Trump now are
on the cusp of sitting down and just meeting each
other person to person is already huge news. But you
add to that the very real possibility that there's going
to be a trilateral summit, a meeting directly face to
(07:10):
face between Zelenski, Putin, and Trump. Here is now it's historic.
This is what my reading of the situation is. You
may agree, you may disagree. For President Trump to invest
now so much political capital and raising expectations saying he's
(07:33):
now gonna meet with Putin, it can only be because,
for whatever reason, behind the scenes, the Russians have made
significant concessions and the Ukrainians have made significant concessions that
they are now willing to meet at the diplomatic negotiating table.
(07:54):
For Putin to be willing to sit down with Zelenski,
for Zolensky to be willing to sit down with Putin
and for Trump now to put his full prestige on
the line to say, I'm want to come in now
as the closer. In other words, the two sides are
close enough. I'm going to come in now, We're going
(08:15):
to lock the doors, and we're coming out with a deal.
I can't read the evidence, Eddie any other way. For
Trump to just meet Putin for the sake of meeting him,
I think would weaken Trump. It would deplete his political capital.
I think it would come across as a failure on
his part. You don't throw the full weight of the
(08:37):
presidency unless you truly feel you are close to the
end of the road, you are close to a possible
negotiated settlement and some kind of a peace deal. Zolensky
would not meet with Putin unless he feels that there's
something he can sign. And Putin would not meet with Zelenski,
(08:58):
who he dismisses, unless he's willing to sign something on
a piece of paper. So listen now to President Trump.
Roll cut two, Mike.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We had some very good talks with President Putin today,
and there's a very good chance that we could be
ending the ending the round, ending the end of that road.
That road was long and continues to be long. But
there's a good chance that there will be meeting very soon.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So now he said, look, you know, nothing is set
in stone, it's not one hundred percent yet, but he said,
as he put it, there's a very very good chance
we're going to be meeting, and we're starting to approach,
as he put it, the end of a very long
war road. This war has gone on now for over
three years. You're just this year alone, twenty thousand Russians dead,
(09:58):
nine thousand Ukrainians. In total, over a million Russian and
Ukrainians have either died or been named in this war.
It is by far the worst war in Europe since
World War Two. It appears to me that Zelenski now
(10:18):
is willing to concede that Russia will ennex Crimea and
take eastern Ukraine about twenty percent of the country what's
called the Dawn bas and in exchange for that, Ukraine
will then have access to the European Union, Ukraine will
get a chance to rebuild its military, and Ukraine will
(10:42):
be able to break free from Russian control and dominance.
In other words, I think Ukraine is now willing to
accept eighty percent of Ukraine is better than no Ukraine,
and Putin now realizes he can't fight this war much longer.
It's time to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
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