A Green Beret’s Warning About Ukraine: We Are Walking Into Another War
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Nick Freitas
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has given Russia and Ukraine a deadline to end the war, and it's approaching fast, as in June… June is when the longest war in Europe since WWII is supposed to end, but neither side seems to be budging. So the question is… how committed is Trump to the deadline, and what options might he consider... diplomatic pressure, economic incentives, military involvement, or something else to try to achieve it?
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00:00:00 Possible Paths for US Involvement in Ukraine
00:01:17 Trump’s June Deadline for Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal
00:02:40 The Budapest Memorandum and New Security Guarantees
00:04:33 Europe’s Responsibility and US Financial Frustrations
00:10:32 Battlefield Map and Current State of the Conflict
00:14:58 Negotiating Peace: Territorial Demands and Strategic Interests
00:22:34 Option One: The US Washes Its Hands
00:33:26 Option Two: Pressuring Ukraine for Territorial Concessions
00:41:09 Option Three: Massive US Military Intervention and Air Power
00:54:01 Trump’s Brinkmanship and the Future of the Conflict
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| 0:00.0 | Are we going to go to war in Ukraine? And the reason why I ask this question is not because |
| 0:06.0 | I think Donald Trump wants to go to war in Ukraine, but when you tell two warring parties that |
| 0:10.3 | have been at it for about four years now that they've got to come to a deal by June or else, |
| 0:17.2 | the question you've got to ask yourself is, or else else what and there are three possible ways that the |
| 0:24.4 | United States could go about doing this one way is we could just wash our hands of it we could say |
| 0:28.6 | look just not our problem and there's some issues with that but we could do that and we're going to |
| 0:34.9 | discuss that as an option we could say you know what um we want this thing to come to an end. And so Russia is going to get some serious consideration. They're going to get some serious concessions out of this. We might not like what Russia did, but the reality on the ground is they got more people. They got a bigger economy. And it's just the way it is. So So sorry Ukraine, you're going to have to give up some stuff. |
| 0:57.2 | Or we could go hardcore and putting Vladimir Putin in his place. |
| 1:02.4 | And that would mean getting involved militarily in Ukraine, at least most likely. |
| 1:07.7 | So today we're going to go over all of those three possibilities, what we think is |
| 1:11.8 | most likely to happen and hopefully give everyone a good picture of what's going on the ground right now. |
| 1:17.4 | So why do I say that this is something that we need to seriously consider? Well, it probably has |
| 1:22.4 | something to do with this remark right here where Donald Trump essentially came right out and said that they've got till |
| 1:30.0 | June or the beginning of summer, right? U.S. gave Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach |
| 1:35.4 | agreement to end war, Zelensky says. You scroll down here, President Trump has said a June |
| 1:39.7 | deadline for Ukraine and Russia to strike a peace deal to end its four-year war, Ukrainian president |
| 1:44.3 | Vladimir Zelensky said. Zelensky made the comments while speaking to reporters suggesting |
| 1:48.7 | that the timing was due to the high stakes November midterm elections in the U.S. |
| 1:53.2 | The Americans are proposing the parties in the war by the beginning of this summer and will probably |
| 1:57.2 | put pressure on the parties precisely according to this schedule, Zelensky said |
| 2:02.2 | Friday. Now, it's important to understand a couple of things here. First of all, regardless of what |
| 2:07.8 | you think of Zelensky, Zelensky's job is not to make American taxpayers happy. It's not to |
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