FTA: Emergency Episode: After the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Fiasco

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Original Air Date: 2/28/25 There’s no way to sugarcoat it — the Trump/Zelensky meeting was a disaster. The betrayal of Ukraine is confirmed, and the administration is past the point of no return. Doug Lute, Rosa Brooks, and Marc Polymeropoulos join David Rothkopf to break down this train wreck of a meeting and what it means for the future of US foreign policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.6	Hello and welcome to a special emergency edition of DSR. I'm David Rothkoff, your host.
1:44.2	We're joined today by three of our smartest and coolest-headed friends, including General Doug Lute, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, which, you know, that's the job, you know, may not exist in the future.
2:01.0	How are you doing, Doug?
2:02.6	I'm doing well.
2:03.7	Thank you.
2:04.5	Excellent.
2:05.5	Also, our friend Mark Palomorophilus, who, as everybody knows, long career with the Central Intelligence Agency and spent a lot of time thinking about Ukraine.
2:16.6	How are you doing, Mark?
2:18.1	Not a good day today. Not a good day. And of course, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University
2:25.3	Law Center. How are you today, Rosa? I'm reduced to making inarticulate, strangle moaning
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