GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the Kremlin, waiting on POTUS Trump...

#SOLAR: How much energy in one hour of the sunlight on the Earth? Simon Constable, WSJ

#NILE RIVER VALLEY: All against All. Ronan Wordsworth. @GPFutures

#RUSSIA Stealing 20 kg of butter. Michael Bernstam, Hoover

#UKRAINE: Boris Johnson and the possibility of NATO troops. Josh Rogin, WaPo

#NewWorldReport: Maduro and the Venezuela migrants in America. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

#NewWorldReport: Javier Milei to Mar a Lago with President-Elect Trump. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

#NewWorldReport: Mexico on the border. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

#NewWorldReport: Marco Rubio to State. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

2/2: #ENDARKENMENT: The modern loss of faith and reason & What is to be done? , Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

1/2: #ENDARKENMENT: The modern loss of faith and reason & What is to be done? , Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

2/2: #PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: Tariffs do not succeed. . Richard Epstein, Hoover INSTITUTION.

1/2: #PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: Tariffs do not succeed. . Richard Epstein, Hoover INSTITUTION.

2/2: PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: The trials of Donald Trump.. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

1/2: PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: The trials of Donald Trump.. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

#StateThinking: First Term Israel. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

#StateThinking: First Term Trump and Russia. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

PREVIEW: ENDARKENMENT: Colleague Peter Berkowitz explores Martin Gurri's Manhattan City Journal argument portraying modern America, product of the Enlightenment, as representative of "Endarkenment." More tonight.

PREVIEW: SOLAR: Colleague Simon Constable posts a ten-question quiz in the WSJ, including a sci-fi favorite. More later.

PREVIEW: BORIS JOHNSON/TRUMP/UKRAINE: Colleague Josh Rogin reports that former PM Boris Johnson argues that if the U.S. pulls back from supporting Ukraine, then NATO is likely to get drawn into the fighting. More tonight.