Today’s notice: What the White House summit taught us. The buyer’s remorse vote. A former Tune Inn bartender is running for Senate. What members all say after they violate the STOCK Act. Hochul’s dilemma.
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What to know about the Ukraine summit: Experts told our White House team a very Donald Trump-ian day of pomp and circumstance, dealmaking sessions and impromptu, news-making press statements with the leaders of some of America’s closest allies went surprisingly well.
Trump was all smiles. Volodymyr Zelenskyy was smiling, too, at times. What was looking quite recently like a process that would drive more of a wedge between the U.S. and Europe ended with leaders saying Trump’s summit felt like Russia’s war with Ukraine was closer to a resolution than ever. “I think this was one of these meetings where we kind of took, you know, three steps forward rather than any backwards,” Finnish President Alexander Stubb said after the meetings at the White House.
Those details though: “It is still too soon to discern if Putin is negotiating in faith — or just buying more time to continue the war. It is still too soon to discern if Putin, even if he keeps hold of some 20 percent of Ukraine, is ready to let the rest of the country go and integrate into the West,” Charles A. Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations told Jasmine and NOTUS’ Violet Jira.