Putin’s Victory? Trump’s Deal and Ukraine’s Fallout

This pod­cast episode dives into the end of the Ukraine war, with Putin emerg­ing vic­to­ri­ous. As the war con­cludes, oth­ers swoop in to claim Ukraine’s spoils, while Zelensky’s lead­er­ship fal­ters, hav­ing auc­tioned off min­er­als glob­al­ly with­out enough col­lat­er­al to cov­er his deals, includ­ing a UK 100-year agree­ment. Rus­sia, staunch­ly against NATO’s expan­sion and troop pres­ence in Ukraine, finds Trump ready to nego­ti­ate direct­ly with Putin, bypass­ing Ukraine and defy­ing past U.S. align­ment with Brus­sels. The media por­trays Ukraine as a vic­tim and ques­tions Putin’s “reward” for 11 years of aggres­sion, ques­tion­ing if the U.S. sup­plied weapons may have fueled every Russ­ian casu­al­ty. Trump faces a tough task as he aims to pro­tect Amer­i­can inter­ests in a frank call with Putin, with the media like­ly to spin Zelen­sky as the wronged par­ty regard­less of the out­come.

• The war is over. Putin won the war. But oth­ers are com­ing in to divide the spoils of the coun­try. Zelen­sky doesn’t help any­thing. Rus­sia is not going to be ok with the UK and France and NATO send­ing troops into the Ukraine. Moscow was nev­er ok with the addi­tions to NATO. They don’t want any NATO troops in Ukraine. The media ques­tions: What “reward” will Putin get for 11 years of aggres­sion against Ukraine? And, Ukraine is the vic­tim. Trump will get on the phone and make a deal with Putin and leave Ukraine out of it. The UK made Zelen­sky sign the 100 year deal. Zelen­sky has been auc­tion­ing off the min­er­als all over the world. He doesn’t have enough col­lat­er­al to pay back all the deals. Trump will not get on the phone and sell out the Amer­i­can peo­ple. In the past Amer­i­ca has stood behind the deci­sion that Brus­sels made, not this time. The ones that sent the equip­ment and mon­ey are the ones that pro­longed the war. This will prob­a­bly be a firm frank con­ver­sa­tion between Trump and Putin. It is pos­si­ble that every Russ­ian that was killed was killed with a weapon pro­vid­ed by the US. The media knows the truth about this war, they know what they have done about this war. Trump has a tough job today because the media will paint Zelen­sky as the vic­tim. Noth­ing that Trump does today will be good for Ukraine.