The insane press conference in the White House Friday was all over the news, so Hal Ginsberg and I reflected on it during my weekly (now Tuesday) appearance on Hal’s YouTube videocast Halitics. The discussion got heated when I said Trump and VP Vance were disrespectful to Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and we’ve now flipped over to Putin’s side. Hal contends that Ukraine needs to cooperate with Putin in order to get a peace treaty to halt the costly and destructive war. Hal blames the Biden administration and Ukraine for resisting negotiations. I remind Hal that it was Putin and Russia who started this war, and Putin has a record of not following through on previous treaties..