If you want to know just how delighted Vladimir Putin was by today’s extraordinary meeting in the Oval Office, the blow-up between JD Vance, Donald Trump and Vlodymyr Zelensky, pay particular attention to what Mikhail says around the twenty minute mark in our conversation: If you can believe it, Russians are now naming their children “Trump”.
What happens as a result of the ugly impasse now in Ukraine? In Russia? In Europe and elsewhere geopolitcally?
Watch our video.
A timeline of our conversation:
0.00: Russia’s reaction to the meeting: “more than expected”
Mikhail quotes from Russia’s former president Dmitri Medvedev, now vice chairman of Russia’s security council:
“For the first time Trump told the cocaine clown the truth to his face. The Kiev regime is playing with WWIII and the ungrateful pig got a slap….”
1.30: why did the meeting devolve so spectacularly?
2.00: Was it a staged performance? A set-up
2.30-3.30: the critical role of JD Vance in blowing up the meeting
4.00: Zelensky’s role in the performance. Did he over-react?
5.58: Are we on the brink of World War III?
7.14: Russia wants a better relationship with the US; the war with Ukraine is less of a priority
8.15: Why Putin needs the war with Ukraine domestically
9.16 Zelensky could have been more diplomatic
10.00 The background to the rare earth minerals deal. Why it was advantageous for Zelensky to get it signed
13.00 How will Ukrainians feel about Zelensky’s performace in the Oval Office?
16.00 How will Zelensky handle this now? He cannot not be a super-hero to Ukrainians.
19.00 How does Russia now game this out?
20.15 Trump is so popular in Russia, that parents are naming their newborns Trump
22:00 Where Putin goes from now in negotiations with Trump
23:20 The collapse of the Transatlantic Alliance
24.00 Given the abrupt reversal of the attitude on display with Macron and Starmer, was the decision made to broadcast the meeting a deliberate sabotage?
25:00 How today’s meeting belongs in the context of Russian history. It’s taken us back to the 1970s.
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