General Discussion

Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face

We begin with the latest display of Putin’s capture of Trump who, after standing next to Zelensky at Mar a Lago saying he was 95% of the way to a peace deal to end Russia’a war on Ukraine, reversed himself after a call from Putin accepting the lie that Ukraine had struck one of Putin’s residences which Putin is using as an excuse to scuttle any peace deal which he clearly has no interest in. Joining us is Olga Lautman, a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis who is also the creator and co-host of the Kremlin File podcast series, which features expert discussions on the Kremlin’s internal affairs, global operations, and tactics used from their hybrid warfare toolkit to destabilize Western democracies. She has a Substack newsletter covering Russia, Ukraine, Eastern, and Central Europe with a focus on Russia’s intelligence operations available at olgalautman.substack.com where her latest article we discuss is, “Trump Delivers a Christmas Gift to Putin by Targeting Europe’s Democracies.”

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