Yet Another Sellout by Trump to His Handler Putin
We begin with the upcoming Trump/Putin summit next Friday in Alaska which is yet another sellout to Putin after he pretended to be annoyed with his handler who now gets another free pass with the deadline for secondary sanctions lifted and a so-called peace deal nothing more than a gift to Putin and a betrayal of Ukraine. Joining us is Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, a professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University and a former senior fellow at The Atlantic Council. A member of the Russian academy of Natural Sciences, he worked as a Swedish Diplomat in Moscow and served as an economic advisor to the governments of Russia and Ukraine. His books include Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It and Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path From Market Economy to Kleptocracy.
Since Zelensky Will Have to Reject Trump’s Phony Peace Deal, Will That Be Trump’s Excuse to Abandon Ukraine?
Then we get an appraisal of how Trump is setting up Zelensky whose constitution does not allow him to give up territory which means he will reject the phony peace offer and that will be Trump’s excuse to abandon Ukraine and make it Europe’s problem. Joining us is Olga Lautman, a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis who is also the creator and co-host of the Kremlin File podcast series, which features expert discussions on the Kremlin’s internal affairs, global operations, and tactics used from their hybrid warfare toolkit to destabilize Western democracies. She has a Substack newsletter covering Russia, Ukraine, Eastern, and Central Europe with a focus on Russia’s intelligence operations available at olgalautman.substack.com.
Gabbard’s Ridiculous Revisionist History Aimed to Please the Liar-in-Chief
Then finally we speak with Renée DiResta, the former technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory and a research professor at Georgetown University whose work examines rumors and propaganda in the digital age. She has analyzed geopolitical campaigns created by foreign powers such as Russia, China, and Iran; voting‑ related rumors that led to the January 6 insurrection; and health misinformation and conspiracy theories pushed by domestic influencers. She is the author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality and we discuss her article at Lawfare “From Russian Interference to Revisionist Innuendo: What the Gabbard Files Actually Say.”