Can the Donald Trump administration really end the Ukraine war? What is Russia's view? Why did the US fuel the conflict in the first place? These issues are discussed by political economist Radhika Desai, Russia expert Richard Sakwa, and China-based economic geographer Mick Dunford.

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This is part of the program Geopolitical Economy Hour. You can watch other episodes of the show here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Topics

0:00 Intro

7:08 Historical moment

9:39 NATO

13:30 Multipolarity

15:00 Imperialism & rent extraction

19:03 West lost Ukraine war

20:12 Can Trump end the war?

22:50 Russian view

26:03 Divide Russia and China

28:44 Trump's strategy

32:22 Isolationism

34:39 Russia-China alignment

37:16 Reverse Nixon

38:16 Root causes

40:07 Geopolitical shift

43:37 Trump is symbol of crisis

45:14 Dollar system

46:01 European politics

46:42 Trump's vision

47:44 US-Russia relations

48:29 ASEAN spirit

50:02 Europe's warfare state

54:18 Europe's deindustrialization

58:56 Western double standards

1:00:31 Russia's perspective

1:03:18 Russia's demands

1:06:12 Ukraine's civil war

1:07:40 Outro