Ukraine’s national flag flies in Independence Square in Kyiv, August 24, 2025
EA-Times Radio VideoCast: Trump Camp’s Far-Right Threat to Europe and Ukraine
In a 29-minute VideoCast, I discuss with Times Radio’s Kate Gerbeau why the defense of Ukraine against Russia’s 46 1/2-month full-scale invasion is so important.
I explain why, despite the flurry of activity around two competing proposals, a negotiated settlement is unlikely in the near future.
I take apart the propaganda of “Russia is winning” — despite a recent increase in their rate of advance, the Russians have taken 0.9% of Ukraine this year at a cost of more than 400,000 casualties — and highlight the Russian economy’s constraints on the invasion.
And — just after chatting with two young Ukrainian broadcast journalists about the invasion, Christmas, and life — I close with thoughts on how historians might look back on the Kremlin’s attempt to conquer Ukraine.
These people just want to live. They want to have their families. They want to have their homes. They want to have their careers.
They do want peace, but they don’t want the peace that the Kremlin or Donald Trump talks about. They want to decide their future.
Did we allow them and support them for that decision? If history writes we did, for their security and day-to-day-living, we come out on the right side.
However, if history writes that they became pawns or afterthoughts or expendable, a proper history gives us every black mark we deserve.
