Alexander Stubb

But he added Ukraine will agree to the de-escalation if Russia agrees.

Writing on X, Mr. Zelensky says, I just spoke with Mark Carney, Alexander Stubb and Mark Rutter.

We discussed the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump.

Ukraine supports the ceasefire and it is important that Russia support it as well.

I mean, that's, that's just an objective reality of what it is.

So Zelenskyy says, "I spoke with Prime Minister Burnham of the UK." He said, "I spoke to Jonas Gahr Støre, the Prime Minister of Norway." He said, "I spoke with, uh, f- uh, French President Emmanuel Macron." He spoke with Finland's President Alexander Stubb, and he spoke with all these people.

Now, we're also getting more details about what went down at that Miami meeting.

So you had, on Friday, you had Witkoff and Kushner meeting with the Ukrainian delegation.

The German leader was on an unannounced visit to offer 1 billion euros in military aid for Ukraine when a Russian drone hit and damaged the northern bridge over the Dnipro River, injuring two people.

mert said that new advances in drone technology as part of a joint german ukrainian program will quickly and tangibly improve ukraine's air defenses finnish president alexander stubb is more concerned about the advances that russia is making as the war progresses the russian

military was not capable of modern warfare when this war began but now they are so they are also going to be much stronger when they regroup after the war.

So there are a lot of

I think President Trump can do more, and he has, between us, has to do more.

There are 24 days left until the US midterm elections, and things don't look promising for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Polling has the US president's approval rating at an all-time low of just 32%, and the Republicans are at risk of losing both the House and the Senate, which will make for a very difficult final two years for Trump.

He has been busy on the campaign trail, but with inflation rising and the price of fuel at record highs as the Iran war drags on, he hasn't been able to charm doubtful voters.

And what happened? What we saw last week, Donald Trump is freaking out about high energy prices in the US because of his war against Iran ahead of the midterms, and so he threatened European countries that he would ban exports of diesel to them unless they released their oil reserves, which is a very stupid thing to do right before winter when we're looking at a lot of supply shocks in the coming months.

And what happened last Friday? Emmanuel Macron, president of France, convened a teleconference of the G7 leaders, and they agreed to give in to Donald Trump's extortion.

They are releasing oil and diesel in order to help Donald Trump out ahead of the midterms.

Why? Because Europe is now importing fifty percent of its diesel imports from the United States.

Um, so I-- the, the, the panic about this, uh, that I hear from EU officials here in Brussels is getting more and more.

The alarm is getting raised more and more, not just privately, but we're seeing public statements, um, from European leaders.

Emmanuel Macron convened a meeting of all of the candidates for the presidential election next year.

We had the president of Finland, Alex Stubb, making some very, very alarming remarks about this.

Later in the day, I had a conversation, and it's on the show, with Josh Rogin.

His conversation was Stubb, the president of Finland, a man who was educated in part in South Carolina and became friends with Lindsey Graham and has played golf with Donald Trump.

He's a Trump whisperer.

He does not think Russia is going to attack NATO.

The Baltic states, Poland, Finland, Norway, the north of the European front line against a po-possibility of a, a Russian attack of NATO.

Josh Rogin for The Wal- Washington Post is here to introduce us to the president of one of those countries, Finland, Alexander Stubb, and what Finland represents to the defense of NATO and also to the development of the whole of the north of Europe.

As the Arctic opens up, as the Northwest Passage becomes a reality, that f-- that rut-- left flank is going to become increasingly part of the prosperity of the planet once we get past the Kremlin.

Josh, a very good evening to you.

Alexander Stubb necessarily focused on defense matters and NATO matters, but you tell me he was a person who knew, uh, very carefully about America because he went to school here.

Where was he in school?

Well, good evening, John.