What Happens If the U.S. Sells Out Ukraine

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traded public barbs on Wednesday, one day after top White House and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy said Trump is living in a 'web of disinformation,' while Trump falsely accused Zelenskyy of being a 'dictator without elections.' With the three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of its neighbor coming up next week, the Trump administration's decision to sideline Ukraine and Europe in favor of direct talks with Russia underscores the ways the president is throwing traditional U.S. alliances out the window. Julia Ioffe, Washington correspondent at Puck News and a long-time observer of Russian politics, explains what the U.S. selling out Ukraine could mean for the world order. And in headlines: A top DOJ officials defended the decision to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in court, Trump signed an executive order to expand his control over independent regulatory agencies, and Civil Rights groups sues the Trump Administration over its anti-DEI and anti-trans actions.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, February 20th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey.
0:06.3	The show that is thrilled, President Donald Trump, is coming up with brand new.
0:10.6	Definitely never, ever used ways to combat teen drug use.
0:15.1	Because we're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars advertising how bad drugs are so that kids don't use them, that they
0:20.9	chew up your brain, they destroy your teeth, your skin, your everything.
0:25.8	Yes, let's spend hundreds of millions of dollars on TV ads to tell kids how bad drugs are.
0:32.1	This has never been tried before.
0:34.5	What groundbreaking information we're learning.
0:43.5	Music before. What groundbreaking information we're learning. On today's show, New York City Mayor Eric Adams' corruption case and political future are still
0:49.3	uncertain. And Elon Musk wants to buy your favor. But let's start with the war in Ukraine, and President
0:55.3	Donald Trump's decision that the best way to end it is to make Russia happy, while bashing Ukraine
1:00.0	along the way. We've been talking on the show this week about Secretary of State Marco Rubio's
1:05.2	meetings with Russian diplomats in Saudi Arabia, in an effort to end the war in Ukraine that Russia launched
1:10.1	by invading the sovereign
1:11.2	country in February 2022. Notably, Ukraine has not been invited to those meetings. And Trump has made
1:17.3	it clear over the last few days why. He thinks the war is Ukraine and Ukrainian President
1:22.2	Vladimir Zelensky's fault. On Tuesday, Trump said Ukraine should have, quote, never started the war, the one which,
1:29.0	you might recall, it didn't start. Zelensky shot back Wednesday, saying Trump was in a web of
1:34.6	disinformation and that the U.S. is doing Russia a favor.
1:42.3	He says there, I would like Trump's team to have more truth. All of this definitely doesn't
1:47.3	have a positive impact on Ukraine. They are letting Putin out of isolation, and I think Putin and
1:52.3	Russians are really happy. But Trump kept hammering the Ukrainian president Wednesday, writing on
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