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00:00Who's in the driving seat, do you think, Riyadh, at the moment?
00:05Right now, things have changed a lot to Ukraine, to Zelensky.
00:12For the past couple of years, the war has turned into a war of attrition,
00:19where Russia has been trying to increase the pressure, the bombardment, so forth,
00:30to force the other side to concede to its demands.
00:35Zelensky had, for the past four years, there was this strong, unconditional support from the U.S.,
00:44flow of weapons that kept Ukraine into the fight, enabled Ukraine to exert pain on Russia as well.
00:54Now things have changed for Zelensky.
00:57We have a president that wants to make everything transactional, so no more free aid.
01:03There has to be something in return, talking about agreement on using minerals, power, and so forth, in Ukraine.
01:13Also on how much weapons to be sent.
01:18So this has emboldened Putin.