Inside Trump–Zelensky Meetings: Secret Schedules, Russia’s Next Moves & What It Means for Ukraine!

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Ryan Fugit

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode of the RH Podcast, former CIA officer 🎖️ Ryan Fugit and multi-time Chief of Station Glenn Corn (34 years at CIA) break down the high-stakes Trump–Zelensky meetings in Washington, DC 🇺🇸 following Putin’s Alaska summit 🇷🇺.

👉 Here’s what you’ll learn:

🔹 Why Putin skipped a key lunch with U.S. Treasury & Commerce officials 🍽️

🔹 The hidden “carrot & stick” strategy behind Trump’s negotiations 🥕🔨

🔹 What Russia really wants before agreeing to a ceasefire 🚫🕊️

🔹 Ukraine’s shocking openness to land swaps & the future of Crimea 🗺️

🔹 How the Russian Orthodox Church is used as a weapon of influence ⛪

🔹 Whether NATO membership for Ukraine is still possible 🌍

🔹 The threat of “gray zone warfare” ⚔️ (cyber attacks, propaganda & sabotage)

🔹 PLUS: Glenn’s hot takes on spies, Cold War movies 🎬, and what history teaches us about de-escalation 📚

💡 Packed with real intelligence insight you won’t hear in mainstream media. If you want to understand the future of Ukraine, Russia, and global security, this is a must-watch.

👇 Join the conversation in the comments – Do you think Putin will agree to meaningful guarantees, or is this just another stalling tactic?

📌 Timestamps

00:00 – Welcome & Introductions
02:00 – Trump–Putin Alaska meeting secrets 🕵️
06:00 – Security guarantees for Ukraine 🇺🇦
10:00 – Land swaps, ceasefire debates & Zelensky’s position
14:00 – Russia’s use of the Orthodox Church as a weapon
20:00 – China, Taiwan & global security flashpoints 🌏
22:00 – Gray zone warfare explained
28:00 – Cold War movie lessons for today 🎥
31:00 – Final thoughts & what’s next

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0:28.5	love to use. Welcome everyone to another edition of the RH podcast. Got your co-host here,
0:35.9	Ryan Fuget, former CIA officer in Army veteran.
0:38.9	I'm joined by a good friend, Glenn Korn, who many of you know now, multi-time chiefest
0:44.0	station, 34 years in the U.S. government with most of that time at CIA.
0:48.9	And we are here to deconstruct all things international security.
0:52.6	And today, of course, is Trump Zelensky meetings in
0:58.5	D.C. following this very interesting past weekend of the meetings with Putin in Alaska. So,
1:05.2	Glenn, welcome. Where are you calling in from? Great to see you again, Ryan, and to see all the subscribers and viewers, even though I can't see them, but I'm imagining them.
1:14.3	I'm calling in from the Institute of World Politics, where I teach and just taught a course, and I'm in one of the classrooms.
1:20.8	So in D.C., Washington, D.C.
1:24.4	Can we ask, what is the course that people are getting from former COS extraordinaire that they probably don't appreciate enough?
1:31.9	I am teaching a course on home cooking.
1:34.3	How to make an egg?
1:35.1	I couldn't do that.
1:36.3	I'm teaching a course on this semester on Turkish national security.
1:40.5	Okay.
1:40.9	Let's get to the business.
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