Whenever Donald Trump boasts of solving eight wars in eight months, the U-S president always adds a sigh of regret. And repeats that he thought Ukraine and Russia would be the easiest one to solve. He did it again at Monday’s signing in Egypt of that plan to end the war in Gaza. So if rolling out the red carpet in Alaska and bringing Vladimir Putin in from the cold, didn’t work, what will?
More pressure on Russia it seems with Nato allies like Germany pledging to purchase military hardware for Ukraine… hardware made in the USA. We’ll ask about Tomahawk long-range missiles that’ll figure top of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s wish list when he travels Friday to the White House. The Oval Office dumpster fire that was their February first encounter’s now a fading memory. And since Trump divides the world into winners and losers, could his calculus be shifting…
What with Ukraine resisting Russia’s summer onslaught and hurting Moscow’s pocketbook with successful long-range drone strikes against oil installations deep inside enemy territory? We’ll ask about momentum… and prospects for what’s already a very, very long war.
Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Daniel Whittington, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.
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Anastasiya SHAPOCHKINA President of Eastern Circles Think Tank and Lecturer in Geopolitics, Sciences Po
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Bill BROWDER CEO, Hermitage Capital
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Gulliver CRAGG FRANCE 24 correspondent
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Oleksandr Merezhko Chair of the Ukrainian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee
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