Can Donald Trump really end the Ukraine war?
Can the Donald Trump administration really end th…
March 11, 2025
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March 11, 2025
Can Donald Trump really end the Ukraine war?
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Summary
Can the Donald Trump administration really end the Ukraine war? What is Russia's view? Why did the US fuel the conflict in the first place? These issues are discussed by political economist Radhika Desai, Russia expert Richard Sakwa, and China-based economic geographer Mick Dunford.
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Topics
0:00 Intro
7:08 Historical moment
9:39 NATO
13:30 Multipolarity
15:00 Imperialism & rent extraction
19:03 West lost Ukraine war
20:12 Can Trump end the war?
22:50 Russian view
26:03 Divide Russia and China
28:44 Trump's strategy
32:22 Isolationism
34:39 Russia-China alignment
37:16 Reverse Nixon
38:16 Root causes
40:07 Geopolitical shift
43:37 Trump is symbol of crisis
45:14 Dollar system
46:01 European politics
46:42 Trump's vision
47:44 US-Russia relations
48:29 ASEAN spirit
50:02 Europe's warfare state
54:18 Europe's deindustrialization
58:56 Western double standards
1:00:31 Russia's perspective
1:03:18 Russia's demands
1:06:12 Ukraine's civil war
1:07:40 Outro
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