Nick Reed 10.12.26 - Cornell 7 Update

Let's do a quick update here on the, uh, Ukraine war.

There's been, over the weekend, a lot of back-and-forthing.

So diesel prices really, really high, and Trump announced in a Truth Social post that he had a highly successful discussion with Putin, stating that Russia would immediately supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace, adding that Russia would supply an additional 500,000 tons in November, a million immediately thereafter, and 3 million tons within a short period of time.

"Between our total control of the Strait of Hormuz," [clears throat] excuse me, "and this great announcement on Russian energy," Trump wrote, "diesel prices for Americans, and indeed the world, will be coming down in record numbers, and fast." Now, Zelenskyy didn't care for this.

A reporter telling Trump that Zelenskyy called Trump weak for the deal, prompting the president to ask who made the statement before simply replying, "Okay." Then on Saturday, Trump expressed frustration with Zelenskyy's inability to make a deal with Russia.

Trump told reporters in response to the recent Russian drone attacks that Ukraine had weathered, quote, "Well, I agree with you, and you know what I suggest? I suggest," talking about Ukraine, "they get a new leader who can make a deal because he," Zelenskyy, "could have made many deals that for some reason he never did." He went on to say, "Let me go a step further.

If I were president, you wouldn't have ever had this war." And of course we know that's true.

Not...

This is...

I, I don't like when Trump does this hypothetical because we don't need a hypothetical.

When Trump was president, we didn't have the war.

The first part of the war took place under Obama when Putin took the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, and then he stopped once Trump became president.

And then when Biden became president, that's when he, you know, launched the second wave, if you will, of the war.

So y- this...

I understand Trump's point, but we don't even have to do this hypothetical if I were president because when he was president, it did, it stopped.

Wasn't by accident, but nonetheless.

So you've got the diesel deal with Putin.

Zelenskyy's like, "You suck, Trump.

You're weak." And then you have Trump saying, "I think they need a new president." I- if I were Trump, I would just say they ought to hold elections It's pretty amazing the, what, what, what we're told by the left in particular is the great savior of democracy still won't allow his people to hold an election however many years later.

Now, then yesterday, boom, boom, boom, yesterday Trump declared an immediate energy ceasefire in the Russian-Ukraine war.

The ceasefire took effect at once.

It applied to both countries, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

"Both parties have agreed.

Don't break it," he wrote.

Ukraine backed the ceasefire, but pressed Russia to commit as well.

Let's do a quick update here on the, uh, Ukraine war.

There's been, over the weekend, a lot of back-and-forthing.

So diesel prices really, really high, and Trump announced in a Truth Social post that he had a highly successful discussion with Putin, stating that Russia would immediately supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace, adding that Russia would supply an additional 500,000 tons in November, a million immediately thereafter, and 3 million tons within a short period of time.

"Between our total control of the Strait of Hormuz," [clears throat] excuse me, "and this great announcement on Russian energy," Trump wrote, "diesel prices for Americans, and indeed the world, will be coming down in record numbers, and fast." Now, Zelenskyy didn't care for this.

A reporter telling Trump that Zelenskyy called Trump weak for the deal, prompting the president to ask who made the statement before simply replying, "Okay." Then on Saturday, Trump expressed frustration with Zelenskyy's inability to make a deal with Russia.

Trump told reporters in response to the recent Russian drone attacks that Ukraine had weathered, quote, "Well, I agree with you, and you know what I suggest? I suggest," talking about Ukraine, "they get a new leader who can make a deal because he," Zelenskyy, "could have made many deals that for some reason he never did." He went on to say, "Let me go a step further.

If I were president, you wouldn't have ever had this war." And of course we know that's true.

Not...

This is...

I, I don't like when Trump does this hypothetical because we don't need a hypothetical.

When Trump was president, we didn't have the war.

The first part of the war took place under Obama when Putin took the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, and then he stopped once Trump became president.

And then when Biden became president, that's when he, you know, launched the second wave, if you will, of the war.

So y- this...

I understand Trump's point, but we don't even have to do this hypothetical if I were president because when he was president, it did, it stopped.

Wasn't by accident, but nonetheless.

So you've got the diesel deal with Putin.

Zelenskyy's like, "You suck, Trump.

You're weak." And then you have Trump saying, "I think they need a new president." I- if I were Trump, I would just say they ought to hold elections It's pretty amazing the, what, what, what we're told by the left in particular is the great savior of democracy still won't allow his people to hold an election however many years later.

Now, then yesterday, boom, boom, boom, yesterday Trump declared an immediate energy ceasefire in the Russian-Ukraine war.

The ceasefire took effect at once.

It applied to both countries, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

"Both parties have agreed.

Don't break it," he wrote.

Ukraine backed the ceasefire, but pressed Russia to commit as well.