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00:00Hello there, my name is Pankaj, you're watching the Trump's Playbook, a daily special
00:20broadcast where we try and read what's on Trump's mind, what's his next step going
00:25to be from his White House Playbook.
00:28Three years of war have left Ukraine devastated, Russia weakened, and Europe in disarray.
00:36While Western leaders deferred, Trump has stepped in, determined to end the war on his
00:42terms.
00:43His team has already begun talks with Russia without Ukraine or European leaders at the
00:48table.
00:49Why so?
00:50Because Trump believes real deals happen between power players, and in his mind that means
00:56him and Putin.
00:57The contours of the deal are clear.
01:00Ukraine won't join NATO, Crimea remains Russian, and sanctions on Moscow will be lifted in
01:06exchange for a ceasefire.
01:09Ukraine meanwhile is expected to pay back the US for the billions it received in aid
01:14because as Trump sees it, nothing comes for free.
01:18Biden must be shedding tears by the bucketful here.
01:22Trump's approach is shaking up the global order.
01:26Europe used to America's unwavering support suddenly finds itself sidelined.
01:32Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky, once the West's hero, is now being dismissed by Trump as irrelevant.
01:39And in a move that echoes Nixon's Cold War Playbook, Trump may use this deal to weaken
01:45Russia's alliance with China.
01:47For much of the world, ending the war means economic relief, lower energy prices, stable
01:54grain exports, and reduced inflation.
01:57Whether Trump's deal leads to lasting peace or another frozen conflict remains to be seen.
02:03But one thing is certain, Trump is rewriting history, and he wants the credit for it.
02:09Let's hear Trump's oblique view on Zelensky and see for yourself if this is the same American
02:15tone with which Zelensky was assured earlier of full support till the end of the war.
03:15So, there you heard the man himself, Donald Trump, explaining what he intends to do with
03:28the Russia-Ukraine war and what is his plan of action in the days to come.
03:34To discuss the matter further, today we are joined by Shastri Ramachandran, a noted journalist
03:40who has covered external affairs, world affairs quite delicately, I would say, and holds a
03:47lot of command on the issues pertaining to United States and beyond.
03:52Mr. Ramachandran, thank you so much for speaking to One India.
03:55How are you today?
03:56Yeah, thank you, Pankaj.
03:59Right.
04:00Mr. Ramachandran, as you also heard, Donald Trump listing his priorities very clear.
04:08Help us understand, is Donald Trump trying to actually end this Ukraine-Russia war or
04:15is he just trying to mitigate American losses?
04:18There is no doubt that US President Donald Trump is determined to end the war in Ukraine.
04:27Whether he is doing this to cut costs or to bring about peace is a different matter.
04:34Let's say, one is looking at the motivation, the underlying reasons or motives that he
04:40might have for doing this, that is a different matter.
04:45And any head of state, especially the head of state and government of the United States,
04:51a person who is perhaps the most powerful, such chief executive in public office, when
04:57he does something, there will be not just one, but there will be several underlying
05:01motives.
05:03What we can look at at this stage is whether his intent to achieve peace will be achieved
05:11or not, what stands in the way or who stands in the way.
05:16And secondly, we can also discuss his reasons, what impulses may be driving him to do this.
05:23It doesn't matter whether he is doing it to leave behind a legacy of peace, whether he
05:29is doing it to cut US expenses, pull back US troops, recover US investment, that's an
05:34entirely different thing, or get reconstruction contracts, all of which is true.
05:40I think, first and foremost, we can agree on the fact that he is pursuing peace to end
05:49the war.
05:50He is pursuing peace.
05:51Okay, okay, so he is pursuing peace.
05:53But is he also playing into the hands of Vladimir Putin, the bigger picture that benefits
05:59Russia?
06:00Or is there some bigger geopolitical plan that Donald Trump has in his playbook?
06:07In this case, I differ from the dominant narrative, which has been pervaded and has swamped the
06:18media driven by Western interests and a Cold War.
06:23I think when we look at the Ukraine war, and it began under Biden, President Biden is a
06:30well known Cold War.
06:32He has been a spearhead of US Cold War for more than 50 years in diverse public offices.
06:38And if there is one thing Joe Biden was good at, it was that being a Cold War exponent.
06:46Now, even those who feel that the US needed to confront Russia, were agreed that this
06:55was not the way to confront Russia and its President Vladimir Putin.
07:01Why?
07:02Because everybody has agreed, including the Pope and others who initially met Putin, that
07:08the war was provoked by Ukraine, which was basically just a cat's paw for the United
07:15States.
07:16Actually, it is a US-Russia war, which is being waged in Ukraine.
07:21Many of the logistics, 70% of the funds and weapons have come from the US and European
07:28countries have put in huge amounts of weapons there.
07:32There are also personnel from several Western countries and besides, you know, in various
07:38guys, not their real identity, generals, military experts, logistics people, and so on.
07:44Many of the military actions of Ukraine could not have been executed without Western cooperation,
07:51support and logistical input.
07:52Now, given all, even people like Henry Kissinger, who later changed his view only after this
07:58war began, was a strong proponent of the theory that NATO should not push eastwards
08:05first.
08:06Second, a more important thing he said was that Russia is a very young democracy.
08:12It needs to be given time to become a mature democracy and pushing NATO east will not achieve.
08:19So it is in seeking to push the boundaries of NATO, the boundaries of Ukraine, and Kiev
08:27is only 300 km miles from Moscow, is the problem.
08:31Is the question.
08:32So you mentioned it correctly, NATO, the war hawk Republicans, how is Donald Trump going
08:38to convince them?
08:39They are also involved, neck deep.
08:42Well, it is the United States that is involved in this.
08:49There is no doubt.
08:50It's not just Republicans or so on.
08:51But the Republicans have not redeemed themselves in any way in the cause of peace.
08:59They have been involved, not only in Ukraine, they also presided over the genocide in Palestine.
09:05Sorry, when I mentioned that 70% of the funds and weapons going into the war, I meant Israel's
09:11war in Palestine.
09:13That was not for the US supported war of Ukraine against Russia.
09:19So I would correct myself on that, but as I have said now, now coming back to your question,
09:26the Republicans had every opportunity to end the war, but they didn't want to.
09:31And I think Biden didn't want to end it because he was not sure whether ending the war will
09:36ensure a presidential victory or keeping the war going.
09:39So I think that in the end, the Republicans fell between two stools.
09:45They had to pursue, sorry, the Democrats fell between two stools.
09:49Now, the Republicans have stolen a mark over the Democrats in this regard.
09:55And in a way, it makes sense what the Republicans are doing, because the Republicans have generally
10:00been known to be non-interfering, you know, they don't care whether.
10:06Okay, okay, fair enough, fair enough.
10:08I mean, they might be fishing from a distance.
10:11I mean, that's up to them.
10:13The bottom line, sir, the final question here, what happens to Zelensky?
10:18Where does this Donald Trump's grand plan, promised playbook leave Zelensky and his country
10:24Ukraine?
10:25Good question.
10:26Zelensky is irrelevant.
10:27He's only a mascot for the US-led and US-supported war in the Ukraine.
10:37As president, he was already falling.
10:40His popularity ratings were low, and he probably welcomed the opportunity of a war because
10:47it would allow him to continue in office.
10:49And for a while, he could trot about the world stage with a sense of exaggerated self-importance,
10:56telling everybody what they should do, telling the US what it should do, telling Europe what
11:01it should do, calling out India, saying watch China.
11:04And he assumed that he was a world statesman who had to dictate to every country what should
11:10be done.
11:12Forgetting that he was a puppet and purely a front for the war by the West against Russia.
11:19So now Zelensky knows that he is being reduced to a zero.
11:25He's a cipher.
11:26He's of no consequence, you know, and he has been sidelined.
11:31And it is a recognition of this that he is trying to make a virtue of the necessity of
11:37having to step down and go the seat from the seat when he says, well, I can step down
11:42from the presidency if Ukraine is taken into the NATO.
11:46So that's an acknowledgment of his own irrelevance.
11:49Right, right, right.
11:51Shastri Ramchandran, thank you so much for speaking to us.
11:53Cipher, an irrelevant personality is what Donald Trump might be relegating Vladimir
12:00Zelensky to.
12:01And if that happens, trust me, I mean, at least Biden would be crying a bucketful here
12:06What it appears to be that the way things have changed in the United States, the kind
12:11of strategies that Donald Trump is belting out from his quote unquote playbook looks
12:17like he might be trying a win-win situation first for America, then for Russia.
12:21What happens to Ukraine?
12:22Shastri Ramchandran just mentioned.
12:24Thanks for watching.