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🗓️ 18 August 2025
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Zelensky & Co. aim to prevent Trump-Putin deal
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the meeting that is going to be taking place in D.C. |
0:05.6 | At the White House between Trump and Zelensky, and then after the Trump and Zelensky meeting, |
0:12.3 | it will be Trump Zelensky and the European A-team, the heavy hitters, as political calls them, |
0:19.1 | who are holding Zelensky's hand as he travels to the United States. |
0:25.9 | And Zelensky has stated that he will be aiming for a ceasefire on the current front lines. |
0:34.3 | That's his goal is a ceasefire. |
0:35.8 | He says there's no way he can accept Ukraine troops leaving the entirety of Donetsk and |
0:41.9 | Lugansk, though he continues to say that he wants a peace to come from his meeting with |
0:49.0 | Trump. |
0:50.2 | He remains committed to rejecting the troops leaving Donetsky and Lugans regions. |
1:00.6 | And then you have the Europeans who have dropped their, pretty much have dropped, |
1:06.8 | their unconditional ceasefire demands. |
1:09.9 | And now their last play is for security guarantees. |
1:14.6 | And when they meet security guarantees, they don't mean Russia and China and India, |
1:19.6 | possibly being guarantors, which I don't think Russia has any problem with. |
1:24.7 | But they mean European countries and the United States as being guarantors, |
1:31.7 | which is another way of saying NATO for Ukraine and keeping the United States invested in Europe. |
1:37.8 | That's the ultimate goal of the Europeans. They want to make sure the United States is |
1:40.9 | invested in Europe and doesn't move away from Europe and perhaps |
1:44.8 | pivots to China and Asia. Anyway, your thoughts on the upcoming meeting? |
1:49.5 | Absolutely. Well, this is being built up as a high noon meeting. And just to quickly say, |
1:58.3 | the reason the Europeans are there is partly because they obviously |
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