4/25/25 Daniel Davis on Why a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Is Not Likely in the Near Future

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Daniel Davis returns to the show to run through all that’s happening right now related to the war in Ukraine. He and Scott start with the state of things on the front, where Davis says things are not going well for Ukrainian forces. They then look at the negotiations, speculate on Trump’s plan and dig into why Davis does not think a peace agreement will happen any time soon. Discussed on the show: “The Secret History of the War in Ukraine” (The New York Times) “UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked documents reveal” (The Grayzone) Daniel Davis did multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan during his time in the army. He is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities and is the author of the reports “Dereliction of Duty II: Senior Military Leaders’ Loss of Integrity Wounds Afghan War Effort” and “Go Big or Go Deep: An Analysis of Strategy Options on Afghanistan.” Find him on Twitter @DanielLDavis1and subscribe to his YouTube Channel. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated; Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, you, welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:11.6	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of anti-war.com,
0:16.4	and author of Provoked, how Washington started the new Cold War with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine.
0:22.9	Sign up for the podcast feed at Scott Horton.org or Scott Horton Show.com.
0:27.4	I've got more than 6,000 interviews in the archive for you there going back to 2003.
0:32.5	And follow me on all the video sites and X at Scott Horton Show.
0:37.5	Hey, guys, on the line, I've got Daniel L. Davis.
0:40.6	He used to be a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, and he is an author.
0:44.9	He wrote a great book about, oh, what the hell is it called, 2020 America thing?
0:51.6	What is it again?
0:53.1	11th hour in 2020 America. The 11th hour. I don't know how that
0:56.4	escaped me other than I'm old and senile. The 11th hour in 2020 America, which is a great book.
1:03.8	And also, of course, he was the heroic whistleblower on the Afghan war in 2012, as you all know,
1:09.4	and fought under Colonel McGregor in Iraq War I and all this
1:12.8	stuff. And also, of course, he hosts Daniel Davis Deep Dive, which is, I think, by far the best
1:21.9	military and political analysis of the Ukraine war that you can find anywhere on the YouTube's. And so, yeah, very happy to
1:31.1	have you back on the show. How are you? You know, I'm doing all right. And I'm always grateful to be
1:35.8	on your show. Cool. Well, I, for one, I'm happy that you didn't get that one job that they're
1:40.9	talking about because I get to interview you now and I don't think they'd let
1:44.2	you be on my show if you had that job. But listen, so I just want to ask you all about what is going
1:50.2	on with Ukraine and the talks and everything. What a terrible mess. First of all, can we start
1:58.3	with some military analysis here of the battlefield and the four major
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