Lawfare Daily: Ukraine After Year One of Trump’s Second Term, with Eric Ciaramella and Francis Farrell
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Eric Ciaramella of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Francis Farrell, a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who covers military and security dynamics in Ukraine, join Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina for a look back at the first year of the Trump presidency through the lens of the war Ukraine.
The three delve into the expectations surrounding the Trump administration's approach to Ukraine, the evolving battlefield situation, and the dynamics of U.S. aid. They also analyze the role of Europe in supporting Ukraine, the potential future scenarios for both Ukraine and Russia as they navigate the complexities of the ongoing war, and whether the ongoing peace talks have any chance of succeeding.
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| 0:00.0 | The Electronic Communications Privacy Act turns 40 this year, and it's showing its age. |
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| 0:35.2 | I think the tragedy of where we are a year into this administration is that they really did have a unique opportunity to shake things up, and they squandered it in large part by focusing all of the pressure on Ukraine and putting minimal pressure on the Russian side. |
| 0:54.4 | It's the Lawfare podcast. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm Anastasia Lappatina, Ukraine fellow at Lawfare, |
| 0:59.7 | with Francis Farrell, a frontline reporter at the Kiev Independent, |
| 1:03.8 | and Eric Churamela, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. |
| 1:09.4 | Is anyone in Europe still going to do anything if Russia's plan of just steadily degrading |
| 1:17.6 | the Ukrainian military, which opens up holes, to take more territory and to take it quicker |
| 1:23.6 | and to demand more serious political capitulation, what will be that hard stop to that kind of scenario? |
| 1:34.3 | In this episode, we look back at the first year of the Trump presidency through the lens of the war in Ukraine |
| 1:39.8 | and discuss whether the ongoing peace talks have any chance of succeeding. |
| 1:45.7 | Let's go back in time to when President Trump was just re-elected a year ago. |
| 1:50.7 | What did each of you expect from the Trump administration when it comes to Ukraine back then? |
| 1:57.1 | And did your expectations, generally speaking, come true or not? |
| 2:01.6 | We can start with you, Eric. |
| 2:03.3 | Thanks, Nastia. |
| 2:04.4 | So I think many of us feared for the worst when Trump was reelected and expected him to |
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