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Hello, I'm just looking up the lyrics to that song from Hamilton,
the rap musical about Alexander Hamilton called the Room Where It Happens.
And there's a line that says they emerge the compromise having open doors that were previously closed.
Bros.
And the reason I'm looking it up is
because the other thing I was looking at
on my laptop was a picture of a conference room in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
At the head of the table are the Saudi government representatives.
On the left hand side of the picture is Marco Rubio,
the US Secretary of State, and other people from Team Trump.
And opposite him is Sergei Lavrov,
the Russian foreign minister and some other members of the Putin administration.
And they are talking about restarting relations between their two countries,
relations that have been in the deep freeze ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Oh, and they're taking the first tentative steps in negotiations about the future of Ukraine.
But no one from Team Zelenskyy is in that room in Riyadh.
So what is going on?
What does it mean and what could happen next?
We'll discuss all of that with some very wise observers