S8 Ep631: 13. John Hardy and Bill Roggio Hardy discusses Russia’s rejected offer to trade support for Iran for a cessation of aid to Ukraine. He analyzes the failing Russian spring offensive and Ukraine’s deployment of drone experts to the Gulf. (13)
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13. John Hardy and Bill Roggio Hardy discusses Russia’s rejected offer to trade support for Iran for a cessation of aid to Ukraine. He analyzes the failing Russian spring offensive and Ukraine’s deployment of drone experts to the Gulf. (13)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel. Bill Raggio's Foundation for the Defense of Democracies joins me as my colleague and co-host, |
| 0:23.0 | and we're very pleased to bring on John Hardy to help us with the Ukraine conflict. John is |
| 0:27.4 | eyes on Ukraine for some years now. We're watching Ukraine because of this unusual headline |
| 0:35.9 | to my reading as of Friday last week, so it's still in place. |
| 0:40.3 | It hasn't been countermanded by anyone. |
| 0:43.2 | Financial Times, London. |
| 0:45.3 | Russia offered, past tense, to curb its support for Iran if U.S. halted aid to Ukraine. |
| 0:54.0 | Subhead, U.S. rejected deal, rejected passant, on intelligence sharing proposed by Vladimir Putin's envoy last week. |
| 1:03.1 | The envoy is named Kirill Demetria, special envoy for President Putin. |
| 1:08.8 | He went to a meeting in Miami with Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner, special envoys for President Putin. He went to a meeting in Miami with Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner, |
| 1:13.0 | special envoys for President Trump. The Russian offer was first reported by Politico. |
| 1:19.1 | The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. I'll stop there because |
| 1:24.0 | Dmitriov posted on X that the report was fake and warned of what he called |
| 1:28.6 | a massive fake media campaign to undermine progress, end quote, in rebuilding U.S. |
| 1:34.8 | ties with Russia. |
| 1:36.5 | No better example of fog of war than there because everything that is asserted is countermanded |
| 1:43.0 | by the man who is said to have asserted it. |
| 1:45.7 | John, I come to you. |
| 1:47.0 | Is this a break in the weather, or is this another version of the Kremlin offering maximum terms for the settlement of Ukraine? |
| 1:55.8 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:58.0 | Hey, John, and Bill, thanks for having me back on the show. |
| 2:00.5 | So just to give listeners a little bit of background, |
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