In this critical episode, The Duran unpacks Europe's growing anxiety as its political and economic strategies unravel — and how former President Donald Trump is being set up as the scapegoat 🇪🇺➡️🇺🇸. With energy crises, war fatigue, and internal discontent rising, EU leaders are framing a "last chance" ultimatum to shift the blame before elections and deeper instability hit 🔥🗳️. This is more than politics — it’s a geopolitical blame game with global consequences. 🌐📉
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00:00all right alexander let's talk about what is going on with uh project ukraine with the diplomacy
00:05between the united states and russia and uh your insights being in uh in saint petersburg
00:12talking to various people about the diplomacy that is taking place between uh russia and uh
00:18and the united states trump and putin well my overwhelming sense when i was in russia
00:25and i should say i i went there to attend a legal forum in saint petersburg service many lawyers and
00:32people of that kind that i was in contact with um i did to have some opportunity to move around
00:38saint petersburg itself but it was limited and my overwhelming sense overall was that there's been
00:46a general stiffening and a determination to see this thing through and that there is no sense at
00:53all in russia that these negotiations are going to be the what ends the conflict in the end now at
01:02this legal forum dmitry medvedev who is the former president of russia and the vice chairman of the
01:09security council and the man who is an overall charge of russia's military industries he's the
01:16chairman of the military um industrial commission anyway he gave a speech as a long speech talked
01:22about many topics but on the issue of the conflict he said simply look these negotiations between russia
01:34and ukraine are ukraine's last chance if ukraine doesn't come to a deal with us basically on our terms
01:46then there is a real possibility that at the end of this we're not going to have merely have an
01:54unconditional surrender on the part of ukraine to russia but that um ukraine itself as an independent
02:05entity might cease to exist and he then went on to say and this is i thought very interesting he then went on
02:12to say of course there are some amongst us who actually want that to happen in other words that
02:22there's an actual desire on the part of some people in russia to proceed to that an end and to put aside
02:31any idea you know negotiations and things of that sort so i didn't get the sense that the russians are in
02:38any kind of very great compromising mood and i think that overall the russians increasingly feel
02:49that trump himself is starting to understand the strength of their results about this and the fact that
02:58events are starting to move in their direction and that he's starting to modify his understanding of the
03:08conflict based on all of that that he no longer believes anymore in the unconditional ceasefire idea
03:17he wants negotiations and he understands that the conflict needs to be ended on something close to russian
03:25terms now if you listen to what rubio has been saying you get some i don't think these these are
03:33rubio's own feelings but i got the sense that he's to the extent that he was conveying trump's thinking
03:40you could see some reflections of that when he spoke to congress and bloomberg says and we only have it from
03:48bloomberg that trump basically told the european leaders after he spoke to putin that the united
03:55states um is not going to be so heavily involved in mediating the conflict from this point on um
04:02there's a limited amount that he can realistically do and that in his assessment russia is going to win
04:09the war now that's bloomberg again we need to be very careful and bloomberg is probably being told this
04:16by some of the european leaders who are clearly very angry with that call and if you follow the media
04:22here in london and across europe you can see that they are all together very angry with the call indeed
04:30but they're not sure at the moment exactly what to do so that's that's my own sense so very strong
04:37determination on the russian side um some people in the united states perhaps trump himself starting to
04:44understand that this is how the war is going to end and that the united states needs to actually
04:53generally distance itself not just from the war but from negotiating efforts but of course a parallel
05:01rage about this within europe and i suspect within some people in the united states also so
05:09the conflict now diplomatically is not between america and russia exactly it is between the west
05:18within the west itself yeah the the question is whether the united states could get uh zelensky
05:28to agree to to russia's terms because that's where we're heading i mean when you listen to medvedev when
05:33you listen to lavrov what he said over the past couple of days this memorandum is is going to be
05:42the capitulation papers i understand that ukraine's going to have input as well and both sides going to
05:47have input but my sense of things is that russia is going to basically put june 2024 uh into a memorandum
05:55istanbul plus is going to be put into a memorandum format and uh and then these papers are going to
06:01be presented to the united states and they're going to see if uh if zelensky is going to agree to this
06:07which of course he's not but can can he be pushed into agreeing to this and listening to medvedev
06:16uh the the answer to that question is clear um no he will not agree to to this and medvedev was he was
06:23talking was even hinting at um a change in leadership in order to sign the memorandum papers
06:30that are going to take a a while to put together he he said this is going to take some time to put
06:35together this memorandum but this seems to be the game plan you put together the the memorandum istanbul
06:43plus you present it to trump trump really doesn't have many options as far as whether to to uh
06:53to accept the memorandum whether to continue to negotiate it seems like he doesn't want to
06:58continue to drag this thing on any further he understands the conflict is lost uh the stumbling
07:04block is zelensky the russians are basically telegraphing this uh if you want these uh memorandum
07:10papers istanbul plus agreed on then you're going to have to figure out a way to change leadership
07:15i i agree with every part of that with one modification i do think zelensky is the stumbling
07:23block in the sense that obviously that zelensky is going to refuse this completely and we've had a
07:28strategically placed article in the new york times written by a western journalist telling us that
07:35the ukrainian military would never accept um um you know
07:38the terms that the russians are seeking to impose and that there would be a massive political crisis
07:46in kiev if zelensky did do that and quite possibly uh that is true i mean they may undoubtedly there
07:53there will be that the bandarites will not accept this as we know but i don't think ultimately the
07:58problem is zelensky i think the problem is this coalition that exists between the european leadership
08:05and the neocons in the united states because when we get to the point when
08:14the russians present what will in effect be a kind of
08:17ultimatum to the ukrainians because what medvedev is now talking about is a kind of ultimatum to the
08:25ukrainians and zelensky rejects it zelensky is going to be backed by the europeans in doing this
08:33if the europeans change their position if they told zelensky look the americans wanted to sign we are not
08:41in a position to push back against this you have to sign if the europeans told people in ukraine
08:52beyond zelensky you have to sign if they said to people like say timoshenko for example that look
09:01zelensky is doing impossible um he's got to go we agree with the americans about this are you ready
09:08to take over if you are we will back you and if they started to communicate this to other people
09:16in kiev well then we might actually see some movement but the europeans aren't saying any of
09:22that they are continuing to say the opposite they continue to back zelensky they continue to pretend
09:29that this government in ukraine is you know a wonderful government they shut their eyes when a
09:37uh ukrainian a former ukrainian official who was not part of the ukrainian government since 2014
09:46in other words has played no role in any of this and has been living quietly in spain is murdered
09:53bear in mind you know we've had whole situations in britain where people have been murdered here and
09:59the british government as we know has taken enormous action against the people it says were responsible
10:07spain the europeans say nothing about this they're not bothered in any way about the fact that this
10:14man was killed after you know taking his children to school so given that this is the kind of attitude
10:23that we see in you in europe today of course zelensky is going to reject this and of course the rest of the
10:34ukrainian elite will support him in rejecting it the question then becomes twofold firstly
10:44what will happen at that point will the europeans and the neocons lindsey graham and all of those come
10:52together and try and pass a bill through congress imposing these massive sanctions on russia and
10:59then present it to donald trump for signature are there the votes for that lindsey graham says that
11:05there are other votes in the senate but are there the votes for that in the house i don't know i'm not
11:12sure trump clearly doesn't want this bill passed he actually made a statement say that the only person
11:20who decides whether or not they're going to be sanctions further sanctions is me and no one else
11:26which is clearly assigned to lindsey graham to back off but you know that possibility that they will try
11:33to push this try to push trump in that way through sanctions through the threat of this bill exists
11:41and well so that's one big issue what does the united states do in that kind of situation where the
11:49europeans are clearly acting defiantly and secondly what do the russians do now the russians i don't
11:59think it's complicated if the ukrainians refuse to accept the met the memorandum whether or not
12:08the united states backs it they will continue the war and uh medvedev has made it pretty clear
12:15what he expects the outcome of that war to be at the very least regime change in kiev
12:22arguably something much more than that yeah well the wall street journal is reporting that the uh the
12:29next talks are going to take place the vatican interesting uh choice and um and the europeans they've
12:39they've they've decided in my opinion to that it's better for them to allow ukraine to to collapse
12:50than to to accept a defeat to russia i think this is the the general attitude of of the europeans
12:57we've talked about this in videos that we recorded a couple of years ago actually that the europeans
13:03and the ukrainians the bandarites as well especially the bandarites they've decided that it's better to
13:07to go down in defeat and not right defeat and to have ukraine completely collapse than to accept
13:14some sort of uh a peace deal absolutely i mean to talk to the russians to exist with the russians for
13:20them is is unacceptable i think the europeans the current european leadership is also um of this mind as
13:27well they don't want to coexist with russia they don't want to talk to the russians so i think that
13:33whatever trump decides if he believes that he can get zelensky or the europeans to his side
13:43it's not going to work uh the question is can the europeans and zelensky get trump to their side
13:50exactly well or or if not trump um if they can create enough critical mass of pressure in washington to
13:59force trump to go to their side i think that over the last 10 days we have just we have started to
14:06see trump starting to uh make clearer what his own particular feelings are he doesn't want to impose
14:15sanctions on russia i think he understands that lindsey graham's uh sanctions would be an absolute
14:21disaster um i i i don't know that he's worked this out but i think deep down he feels that
14:27i think he also understands and i suspect he's been briefed by some people maybe in the pentagon
14:34that the war is lost and i think he understands that too but there are many many people who deny
14:39what the europeans want to do is that they're prepared to sacrifice ukraine so that they can
14:47maintain the spectre of the russian um of the russian ogre the russian aggressor that is there on
14:55their doorstep um there's been an extraordinary article in the new york times which says that
15:01the future us government is going to be hostile to russia so i think that reflects sentiment in europe
15:11as well they believe that if they can maintain this crisis with russia once trump is off the scene
15:19the us will revert back to supporting europe and the whole grift which you've talked about many times
15:26of nata and all of that will resume again but they need to have russia there now in order to do it
15:35and i i i think also at a fundamental level it's very difficult now that for them to reverse course about
15:44ukraine because if they do a deal with putin um then of course inevitably the question becomes well
15:55why have you waited so long why didn't you do the deal before why didn't you conduct diplomacy and they
16:03don't want to have to answer that question either and last and not least and this should not be
16:11underestimated they want to use a military defeat in ukraine as a mechanism to blame donald trump
16:21to say that he is the person who has engineered that defeat so you're starting to see articles
16:27appear in all kinds of places there was one in foreign policy there's others in other places saying
16:33that you know ukraine isn't doing so badly at the wall on the contrary if anything the balance of
16:39advantage is tilting in its favor the russian economy is under enormous stress it's a house of cards
16:50victory in other words was at hand and then that imbecile that idiot donald trump came along
16:57he loves putin too much he's a weak negotiator he's been seduced and fooled by putin
17:03and as a result um the whole um you know victory that could have been achieved was lost and i think
17:12they intend to use that against trump not just not just to um discredit trump himself but to just
17:22discredit the entire political movement in the united states which he has maggot and all that well
17:30we've been we've been saying this for a while now that the europeans are going to turn on trump
17:33there's no doubt about it and um and they're already starting to and it's the europeans it's the
17:39neoliberals in the us it's the neocons they're all working together on this and they are going to
17:45turn to turn on trump if he does and that's that's the question if if if he does decide to uh to walk
17:53away from from ukraine yes that's it's still not a done deal it's still not a done deal by it by
17:59any means but in terms of the conflict itself let me go back to what i said at the start of my program
18:06i mean obviously putin wasn't there at the legal forum so you know we didn't hear directly from him
18:11that he's been making some very interesting points recently but certainly i got the overwhelming sense
18:18that these people not all of them i would guess were very political people we are talking about
18:24lawyers um they are pretty much united now that this thing must be brought to a successful conclusion
18:32they will accept nothing less and they are as i said a particular very civilian class of people
18:41the new york times also had another article in which he said that the soldiers
18:47in the russian army expect now nothing less than victory and will be very very embittered
18:53and feel deeply betrayed if they get anything less so that is the mood in russia the russians are not
19:00afraid of sanctions anymore they are convinced that they're winning the war and they will continue the
19:06war and as medvedev said if this peace deal isn't worked out the way the russians want well whatever
19:16issues there are for trump whatever quarrels there are between the europeans and trump it's not after
19:22ultimately a russian concern they will go on and win in ukraine and that's now the direction
19:30yeah last chance this is their last chance all right the duran.locals.com we are on rumble
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