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The Duran Podcast

Performative diplomacy as Ukraine continues to lose big in the war

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Performative diplomacy as Ukraine continues to lose big in the war


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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the diplomacy that is taking place between the United States and Russia and Ukraine.

0:08.2

We had Debitriev in Florida meeting not only with Kushner and Whitkoff, but also with Bessent.

0:16.5

So what does that tell you the fact that Besset was at that meeting?

0:20.4

And we were supposed to have the third, the second or the third, depending on how you look at it,

0:27.6

a meeting between Russia, Ukraine, and the United States, though the United States was not going to have Whitkoff and Kushner participate in the next round of talks.

0:38.0

They were supposed to take place in Abu Dhabi yesterday, actually.

0:41.5

But they have been postponed, and they will now take place.

0:44.4

I believe the date that they're floating is 4th or 5th of February.

0:50.1

The Kremlin actually came out with a statement and said that the reason for the change is for

0:57.7

scheduling issues.

0:59.4

Zelensky pretty much said the same thing.

1:01.8

That's where we are with the diplomacy, Alexander.

1:05.7

Yeah, a lot of talking about scheduling issues, I don't myself see what these issues are. None of the

1:12.5

people who are now involved in these negotiations. The tripartite working party negotiations

1:18.5

are the sort of people who you would imagine have such full timetables doing other things that they wouldn't be able to come and attend a meeting of this kind.

1:31.0

So the reason it was postponed, the true reason it was postponed, is because Zelensky and the Ukrainians were unhappy.

1:39.2

And they were making that very clear before.

1:41.6

They said that it might have to be postponed because there

1:45.5

was going to be in war with Iran. Of course, that didn't happen. So we've come up with the

1:51.6

alternative explanation, which is scheduling issues. Now, I think we need to be completely clear

1:59.0

about where the negotiations are.

2:02.2

There's negotiations.

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