8: US-Ukraine Summit Yields No Tomahawk Commitment; Focus on Attrition. John Hardie and Bill Roggio discuss how reports suggest President Trump pressed Zelensky to agree to a ceasefire based on Russian territorial demands, though no commitment was made on pr
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
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| 0:24.0 | I'm jammedatsu with my colleagues, John Hardy and Bill Rajah of the Foundation for |
| 0:27.7 | Defense of Democracy. The news, John, to comment, Ukrainian President Zelensky will attend a meeting |
| 0:34.4 | of Ukraine's allies known as the Coalition of the Willing. |
| 0:37.8 | That's a quote in London Friday announced by Mr. McCrone. |
| 0:42.3 | This could be an extension of the meeting in the White House or could be going in another direction. |
| 0:46.7 | Do you have any information about what the Coalition of the Willing can do for in that they haven't already done, John? |
| 0:53.6 | So the Coalition of the Willing is a group of countries led by the UK and France that have been |
| 0:59.6 | trying to devise a post-war security guarantee for Ukraine, with, according to Trump, likely |
| 1:09.6 | some level of U.S. support, although it's still unclear exactly |
| 1:12.7 | what that would look like. I think the pattern generally with these meetings with Trump and |
| 1:18.0 | Zelensky and Putin is, you know, you see the kind of principles on the U.S., Ukrainian, |
| 1:23.7 | Russian side meet, and then the Europeans kind of figure out how to, you know, move Trump |
| 1:28.9 | in the right direction or kind of reverse damage or just, you know, coordinate based on what just |
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