Hi everyone and welcome to today's discussion. My name is Glenn Dyson and I'm joined today by

Alexander Mercurris and the guest of the day is Fyodor Lukianov. He's an editor-in-chief

at Russia in Global Affairs Journal. He's also chairman of the Presidium of the Council of Foreign

and Defense Policy in Russia. He's a research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

And yeah, this is where he also moderates as well as interviews President Putin

every year at this annual Valdai meeting where most of us know you from.

So welcome.

It's good to see again, Fyler.

Alexander. Thank you very much. Thank you for this invitation.

And thank you very much for joining us, Mr. Lukianov.

So I thought we could start maybe just addressing,

I know everyone these days are talking about Trump,

but it does, what is interesting, I guess, with this election also in terms

of relations with Russia would be that he differentiates himself very much from the rest of the

political class in Washington in terms of how he imagines relationship with Russia, but also, you

know, his desire to obviously end the Ukraine

war. Now, however, he's also been in power before. As we know, in 2016, he argued the same.

You know, getting along with Russia would be a good thing. He clearly believed in Kissinger's advice,

which he received, that, you know, we shouldn't alienate the Russians

to push them towards the Chinese. And they also made some efforts to get along with Putin,

but it didn't result in that much. Indeed, I would say that his beginning sending the javelins,

which even Obama had been reluctant to do as it would escalate the conflict, you know,

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