According to The Duran, escalating global tensions leave only one real solution: direct negotiations between the US and Russia 🕊️🌍.
With proxy wars, sanctions, and rhetoric reaching dangerous highs, diplomacy—not confrontation—is the only viable path to peace.
Time is running out, and the world is watching.
#TheDuran #USRussia #DirectTalks #Geopolitics #UkraineWar #GlobalDiplomacy #PeaceNow #USForeignPolicy #RussiaDialogue #NATO #EndTheWar #StrategicStability #ConflictResolution #WorldPolitics #WashingtonMoscow #DiplomacyOverWar #ColdWar2 #SecurityCrisis #NewWorldOrder #InternationalRelations
With proxy wars, sanctions, and rhetoric reaching dangerous highs, diplomacy—not confrontation—is the only viable path to peace.
Time is running out, and the world is watching.
#TheDuran #USRussia #DirectTalks #Geopolitics #UkraineWar #GlobalDiplomacy #PeaceNow #USForeignPolicy #RussiaDialogue #NATO #EndTheWar #StrategicStability #ConflictResolution #WorldPolitics #WashingtonMoscow #DiplomacyOverWar #ColdWar2 #SecurityCrisis #NewWorldOrder #InternationalRelations
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Ukraine. And let's talk about the diplomacy that is not really taking place, to be quite honest. I have to say that it's not really taking place. It looks like the Trump administration is still trying to figure things out.
00:20Trump is not able to make a decision. He says he's going to make a decision very soon, but he's still unable to make a decision, walk away, continue to escalate like Biden or do something in the middle.
00:37So Vance was speaking at a type of Munich security conference event, but in the United States, part of the Munich conference organization.
00:50And he said that what Russia was asking for was just too much. So he did say that it was too much of an ask. But he is hinting at some sort of moving away from the ceasefire, the Kellogg ceasefire plan.
01:07So an interesting statement from Vance, an acknowledgement, actually, the way I read it, it was an acknowledgement that there are US officials that have recognized and read Putin's statement from June 2024.
01:22And they do understand what root causes Istanbul plus means. So at least we know that there are people in the Trump administration who do have an understanding as for what Russia is looking for in some sort of a deal.
01:38But on the flip side, Alexander, we have Kellogg. He is making the rounds on all of the media. He is talking about his freeze plan. He says a ceasefire in place. We're going to freeze everything along the current front lines in place.
01:55We're going to create a DMZ, 15 miles for Ukraine to step back, 15 miles for Russia to step back.
02:02And he told Fox News that he was speaking with the Zelensky regime and he told them, don't worry about de facto recognition or de jure recognition.
02:10Don't worry about any of the recognition of the territory that Russia holds, because as we did in Soviet times with the Baltics, as we did in Soviet times with Germany, we're just going to wait the Russians out.
02:22He actually said this. So he's actually going around saying this stuff. And of course, the Russians are probably listening to all of this, I guess, in horror, but also kind of laughing at the ridiculousness of this all.
02:39What are your thoughts on this?
02:41And he's also saying, just to follow up with Kellogg, he's also still talking about European peacekeepers.
02:48Yeah, he's very proud of his plan.
02:51Absolutely. He's very proud of it.
02:52He's very proud of his plan. And apparently, during that disastrous episode in Paris and London,
03:00when his plan was first presented, well, the adaptation of his plan was presented.
03:08The Ukrainians, you know, Zelensky threw a fit about it.
03:12Apparently, he told the Ukrainians, well, don't worry about NATO membership, because though Trump is opposed to it,
03:17you never know, the next administration might not be.
03:20Wait out. He wants to wait out.
03:25He wants to wait out.
03:26Exactly. Which, of course, as you absolutely rightly say, the Russians are listening to all of this.
03:32They're reading all of this. They know perfectly well what Kellogg is saying.
03:37I don't know whether he understands this exactly.
03:41I suspect he doesn't, in fact. But he is, in effect, destroying his own peace initiative,
03:50because I don't think it was ever acceptable to the Russians in any form, any way.
03:56But, you know, anybody from the U.S. who comes to meet them now, Wyckoff, Rubio, whoever,
04:03they will just be able to dust out all the things that Kellogg has been saying and say, look, look, look, he's not interested.
04:11In a final settlement of the conflict, he's not interested in a long term resolution that addresses the root causes or that he wants is a freeze.
04:19He's talking about, you know, demilitarized zones, which we know nothing about, by the way.
04:28Nobody's talked to us about this. The Ukrainians haven't said anything about this either.
04:34He's still talking about European peacekeepers.
04:36He's holding out the possibility that one day Ukraine might join NACO after all.
04:42And he's even saying that the regions might eventually be returned to Ukraine.
04:47So, I mean, this is obviously a nonstarter as far as we are concerned.
04:51And we are just astonished that you still come up and present it to us.
04:55I think that at some point, if there is going to be any movement here, somebody has to take Donald Trump aside and tell him,
05:06you cannot go on keeping Kellogg as your peace envoy because Kellogg, whether inadvertently or not, is undermining all your peace efforts with the Russians.
05:25So I wonder if that's the goal.
05:26Well, it might even be the goal. I mean, it might be the goal.
05:30It might be that Kellogg really does want that to happen, that he knows that the Russians will never agree to any of this,
05:36that his objective is to try to get the Russians eventually to walk out of this process so that, you know,
05:44we get the Lindsey Graham sanctions, bone crushing sanctions imposed and all of that.
05:51It could be. I mean, you know, I really don't. I mean, I think that probably Kellogg himself doesn't quite know.
05:58I mean, he sometimes gives the impression of being quite proud of his plan, if I can put it like that,
06:05and generally believes that it might work, which, of course, it won't work.
06:09But ultimately, it really doesn't matter.
06:11The point is that this isn't taking the thing forward at all.
06:17I get the impression that Trump doesn't, as a matter of fact, want to impose massive further sanctions on the Russians.
06:27I think that isn't the course that he ultimately wants to take.
06:32And the important thing is that Vance is now coming out.
06:37He's not the only person, but it clearly is Vance.
06:40And he's actually going directly against Kellogg.
06:44He says, what needs to happen now, we need to forget about ceasefires.
06:50The Russians won't have ceasefires.
06:53That already destroys Kellogg.
06:55I mean, what Vance is saying is that Kellogg won't work.
07:01The United States now has to instead look to trying to get the underlying issues addressed.
07:08And that has to be done through direct negotiations between the Russians and the Ukrainians.
07:15Now, obviously, he also says the Russians are asking for too much.
07:20But then the whole point of negotiations is that you get together and you discuss what can be agreed between the parties.
07:26You don't have to agree to what the Russians are demanding if the objective is to get negotiations started.
07:33It's at the negotiation table that you finally decide you hammer out what each party is prepared to agree to and to concede.
07:42That is a completely different position from Kellogg's.
07:46It is much closer to the existing Russian position.
07:53And the key thing to say is that the person who is absolutely rejecting negotiations won't countenance them, won't rescind his decree that prohibits negotiations, who is insisting that there must be an indefinite ceasefire first.
08:10And we've seen the terms that he attaches to that ceasefire in the European proposal, which we've discussed in previous programs, which clearly is intended to lead to Russia's capitulation.
08:24The person who rejects negotiations, unconditional negotiations, totally is Zelensky.
08:31And one can clearly see that it is Zelensky who someone like Vance probably ultimately now is coming to see as the problem.
08:41Or that's how it looks to me.
08:43Yeah, well, you know, Trump is expressing frustration and anger.
08:45He says, I'm not happy.
08:47And my sense of it is that Trump is talking about Russia.
08:50He's not happy with Russia.
08:52I mean, my sense, maybe you agree or you disagree, but I'm starting to, I think it's clear.
08:58It's clear that Trump is leaning more towards Kellogg, the ceasefire.
09:04And it seems that he's frustrated with the fact that Putin won't accept a ceasefire.
09:09He's upset that Russia won't capitulate, I guess, is what he's trying to say.
09:15He seems to be drifting away from Whitcoff and he's gone with the Kellogg's ceasefire plan.
09:23Well, we know that they've gone with the Kellogg's ceasefire plan because that's what they presented as their deal.
09:27So we already know that.
09:29Vance is correct in that you have to get negotiations.
09:35You have to move away from talking about a ceasefire and you have to get negotiations.
09:40But bilateral negotiations, not between the Ukrainians and Russians.
09:47It has to be between the United States and Russia.
09:51That's how we started this.
09:52It really was negotiations.
09:54When Trump first got into office, he decided not to walk away.
09:58Huge mistake.
09:59But at least it seemed that he recognized that it's the United States and Russia that have to be at the table.
10:06And then everything started to break down and move adrift.
10:10And that's when the neocons and Kellogg really started to assert themselves.
10:14What do you think of that?
10:16Ultimately, you're absolutely right.
10:17I mean, there is no possibility that Zelensky or anybody who replaces Zelensky from the Kiev side would ever agree to an agreement with the Russians.
10:29I mean, negotiations ultimately are also a route to nowhere.
10:34Ceasefires are a route to nowhere as well.
10:37If you really want to achieve a peace settlement in Ukraine, the only way to do it is through direct negotiations between Russia and the United States.
10:47We've said this all along.
10:50You know, I've talked many times.
10:55Just talk about it again.
10:59Negotiations like the ones that took place between North Vietnam and the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
11:09whose ultimate objective was to extricate the United States from the war in Vietnam.
11:14It wasn't even in the end about achieving a peace in Vietnam.
11:18It was more about extricating the United States from Vietnam.
11:23And that's really the only way forward.
11:26And there's perfectly good grounds to do that, because as The New York Times has told us,
11:31the United States was itself a party to the war in Ukraine.
11:39It was commanding the Ukrainian army.
11:42It was drawing up plans for it.
11:44It was providing the intelligence.
11:46It was, to some extent, even picking the generals, a point which many people have overlooked.
11:52It was providing the military equipment.
11:56It was massively, it wasn't just involved in the war.
12:01It was a party to the war.
12:03So, given that it was a party to the war, there's every justification for direct negotiations with the Russians.
12:11And if you want to achieve peace, and I'm absolutely of the view that it would have been,
12:16it was a huge mistake to go down this road of negotiations either because negotiating a peace treaty
12:23or at least some kind of settlement of the conflict with the Ukraine between the United States and Russia
12:29is a project that will take, well, probably well over a year to agree to, probably much more than that,
12:39which will invite massive criticism in Europe, which will invite massive criticism from the neocons
12:46and their allies in the United States.
12:50It is a recipe for nothing else but trouble.
12:53But if that's what you want to do, that's ultimately the only way that you're going to end this.
12:58I suspect that perhaps some of the people, like the Russians, who are advocating direct talks
13:07between Russia and Ukraine, but importantly, the Russians are saying that the United States
13:14can also be involved.
13:17What the Russians are basically doing is that they're using it as a lure to try to get a dialogue
13:25and a negotiation with the United States itself underway.
13:29And maybe there are people in the US who want to do that also.
13:33But anyway, this is all very hypothetical because we're nowhere near close to that position yet.
13:39The key thing to say is, yes, I absolutely agree.
13:42Trump went with Kellogg.
13:44At the moment, he's still going with Kellogg.
13:48He's very angry and frustrated with the Russians because they haven't caved and agreed to Kellogg.
13:55He doesn't seem to understand that Kellogg not only won't work, but cannot work.
14:01And the one positive, and this is the positive I take from what Vance is saying, is that there
14:10seem to be people in the administration, important people in the administration who understand
14:16this and who are telling Trump, look, this isn't going to work.
14:22Cease fires aren't going to work.
14:24Kellogg isn't going to work.
14:25If we're going to get out of this mess, we need to have some kind of negotiations for
14:31a final settlement.
14:32Let's start with negotiations between the Ukrainians and the Russians.
14:37And obviously, the Russians at the moment are asking for too much.
14:41But maybe over time, we can find some way forward.
14:45I mean, so there is clearly a group of people within the administration, within the Trump
14:52administration who get it.
14:53Vance, it seems to me, is one.
14:56Whit Goff obviously is another.
14:59Probably there are other people too.
15:02Yeah.
15:02He's not listening to them, though, at least at the moment.
15:04No.
15:05And it just seems that Trump is afraid to go with them because for some reason, probably
15:15domestic political reasons, may be connected to Russiagate.
15:19He doesn't want another Russiagate like in his first term.
15:21He's afraid to go against the neocons, the Democrats, the think tanks, the deep state
15:29establishment that is very anti-Russian, very pro-Ukraine.
15:34He doesn't want to go against them.
15:36Or he would prefer to find a way to get the U.S. out of Project Ukraine while also making
15:44it look like he's not walking away and also making it look like that he's not angering
15:50the NATO European partners.
15:52He kind of wants the best of all worlds.
15:54And he's just not going to find that.
15:58He's going to have to go against one of these groups, one of these interests.
16:03Yes.
16:03And it looks like he's still very afraid to go up against the neocon, neoliberal establishment,
16:11which is incredibly invested in many ways.
16:15After we talked about the minerals deal, many ways they're invested in Project Ukraine and
16:20in regime change in Russia.
16:22I completely agree.
16:24Now, I'm going to make a guess that one of the particular factors that worries Trump
16:29a lot and weighs on him and a person who's probably been talking to him quite a lot and
16:35may have a great deal of influence over him is Lindsey Graham.
16:38I mean, Lindsey Graham has put forward this sanctions package against Russia, secondary
16:43sanctions, 500 percent tariffs on countries that import Russian oil and uranium and things
16:49of that kind.
16:50Now, Lindsey Graham is saying that this is intended to support Trump's peace efforts,
16:57that it's intended to come into effect if Russia doesn't act, doesn't obey what Trump
17:09is saying.
17:10But another way of looking at this and maybe a more appropriate way of looking at this is
17:16that what Lindsey Graham is saying is, look, I've got 72 senators who want to follow my type
17:25of unrelenting anti-Russian line in the Senate.
17:30And don't you dare go against us because we are a more than two-thirds majority in the Senate.
17:40If you press on and do deals with the Russians, which we don't like, you will split the Republican Party.
17:49And, you know, this we have commonality on these sorts of questions with the Democrats.
17:57And I mean, it will wreck your entire domestic agenda because you'll have alienated us.
18:04And we are in a position to do you an enormous amount of trouble in the future.
18:09And, of course, 72 senators would be enough if there was a renewed impeachment drive to impeach you if you came to that.
18:20So, you know, this Lindsey Graham thing looks to me as much threatening or like a blackmail to against Trump,
18:32keeping Trump in line as it is anything else.
18:36Nobody talks about it in that way.
18:39But, you know, we're talking about Washington and Washington politics and what the neocons are all about.
18:46And that's, I have to say, how frankly it looks to me.
18:49And I think Trump is very nervous of this.
18:52He's gone out of his way to try and win Lindsey Graham over.
18:58He needs Lindsey Graham's votes to still get his remaining nominees confirmed.
19:04We're coming to the end of that process.
19:08But he also needs Lindsey Graham's support to get the rest of his agenda through.
19:13The trouble is, of course, appeasing people like Lindsey Graham and the neocon tendency
19:18is now antagonizing the MAGA people, who are ultimately even more important to Trump than, you know, the Lindsey Graham faction is.
19:32So we've had Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's written a fiery post in which he says, you know,
19:39what is this awful minerals deal?
19:43Are we committing to Ukraine or not?
19:46Surely the whole point is that we don't press forward with commitments to Ukraine.
19:51And Sean Davis, who's the CEO of the Federalist, which is absolutely, you know, the neocon,
19:57the intellectual wing, you know, publication of the neocon movement.
20:02He's gone on Fox and he's also said that, you know, mineral steel is fine,
20:07provided it is not a pathway towards an indefinite commitment to Ukraine, which, of course, is exactly what it is.
20:16So you can see that by appeasing Lindsey Graham and what he represents,
20:23Trump risks angering some of his own core supporters.
20:27So he's got to balance this.
20:30And I don't know that he really knows how to.
20:33So he dithers.
20:35He tells people that he's prepared to walk away.
20:39He goes with Kellogg.
20:42He doesn't make a final decision.
20:45This thing drags out.
20:47And in the meantime, we get reports about Patriot missile systems being dusted off in Israel and Germany.
20:53This is a Biden era project, by the way, but apparently it's going forward.
20:58We have deliveries of equipment for the F-16 fighters that have been sent to Ukraine and which are achieving nothing, by the way.
21:08We've had this license of the 50 million dollars of weapons that Ukraine is supposed to buy.
21:14We don't even know what kind of weapons those are or whether there's even a contract for them.
21:19But these are all signals that look like, to me, the bureaucracy in this vacuum of decision making is taking control.
21:30And it was the bureaucracy that basically drafted the middle rights deal and made it into the vehicle that we discussed in that other program.
21:42You know, the laundry mechanism, which is what basically it is, because that's what they've done in Afghanistan.
21:50That's what they were doing in Ukraine.
21:52So they've reproduced all of that in this latest.
21:56It's just the latest iteration of all of this.
21:59And I think that for the moment, this will just go on and on and on until eventually, probably, events on the battlefronts make the decision for Trump,
22:16which is what at some point in the summer they're going to do.
22:20And in the meantime, of course, Putin is gathering all his friends.
22:25Xi Jinping is now in Moscow.
22:30China is starting to take a harder line on Ukraine than it has been doing up to this point,
22:38because they're very angry with the Americans over the economic war and they feel the need, the Russians more, probably.
22:46So there's apparently a raft of agreements being prepared between China and Russia.
22:55It's important to say, again, if China were to commit to start providing, you know, weapons and technology to Russia,
23:05well, that will have an immediate effect on the course of the war.
23:08So we would see the effect very, very quickly.
23:12And of course, it isn't just China that's there.
23:15All kinds of other countries are gathering in Moscow as well.
23:19And we can see that even as all of this power vacuum, hesitation and dithering in Washington continues,
23:30the other side is coming together.
23:33And at the same time as the Russians are coming together, and they clearly have a plan,
23:39Zelensky is also busy.
23:43I mean, he's sending drones, fleets of drones to Moscow to disrupt the Victory Day parade.
23:50If there's been anybody warning him to stop doing that from the West,
23:54he's obviously paying no attention to any of these warnings.
23:58When has Zelensky ever heeded warnings?
24:02I mean, you know, the Biden administration supposedly told him,
24:05don't attack Russian energy installations.
24:08So he went on attacking Russian energy installations.
24:11The Trump administration got Zelensky to agree to an energy truce,
24:16a truce, a 30-day truce not to attack energy installations in Russia.
24:22So he went on attacking energy installations in Russia.
24:26Zelensky is uncontrollable.
24:27And there is every reason to think that as this vacuum of decision making in Washington continues,
24:38he will become more hardline and more radical and more reckless and more desperate
24:43as the military situation on the battlefronts turns against him.
24:47So drift is not a policy and it does come with risks.
24:53Trump can go on putting this off as long as he wants.
24:56But, you know, sooner or later, as you absolutely rightly say, he has to decide.
25:03And either he goes with people like Lindsey Graham and Kellogg or he goes with people like Vance
25:11Wyckoff and perhaps Marjorie Taylor Greene.
25:14But he's got to make a decision.
25:16He can't just keep this going in the way that he is indefinitely,
25:20telling people that he's about to walk out tomorrow or the following day or next week
25:26or has already walked out and that it becomes clear that he hasn't actually done anything like that.
25:32He's got to make a decision because ultimately, if he doesn't, the decision will be made for him
25:38and made for him in a way that might not be to his advantage.
25:42Yeah, the weapons are going to run out from the Biden era in about a month
25:47from all of Biden's packages, his drawdown package.
25:52So, you know, Trump has maybe a month, maybe two at most.
25:56And then he's going to have to either go back to Congress and ask for a huge weapons package
26:01or he's going to have to figure out other ways to get weapons to Ukraine.
26:09And I think that's where the minerals deal comes in.
26:12I think that Trump is trying to thread the needle.
26:16He's trying to please the neocons.
26:18He's trying to please the Lindsey Grahams and the organizations and think tanks behind them.
26:26And he's trying to also please MAGA.
26:30Yes.
26:30MAGA America first.
26:32Yes.
26:32And he's going to try to thread that needle.
26:35So he's saying, okay, we'll keep the grift going in Ukraine.
26:40So they're happy.
26:41The interests about the money and the washing machine, they're happy about the minerals deal
26:47because that means that they can keep that grift going.
26:50In the minerals deal, you could say that weapons are going to be sold to Ukraine and not given.
26:56So the MIC is happy.
26:59The neocons can kind of be happy there as well, understanding that weapons will somehow make
27:04their way to Ukraine.
27:06He can package it to America first in a way where he says, you know, I'm not giving weapons
27:11to Ukraine like Biden.
27:13I'm selling weapons to Ukraine.
27:14We're making our money back from the $350 billion that we lost in Ukraine, that we gave to Ukraine.
27:21So he can kind of package it in that way.
27:23And I think his instincts are also taking over with the framing of some sort of a narrative
27:32where America is a war winner.
27:35Because you see a lot of statements, you know, we got Yemen to capitulate.
27:38The United States won World War II.
27:40No one else won it.
27:41We won it.
27:42Yeah, the Russians helped a little bit.
27:43Yeah, the British helped a little bit.
27:44But at the end of the day, it was the United States that won World War II.
27:46So I think he's somewhere deep inside.
27:49He probably understands that he's heading for a big loss when it comes to Ukraine.
27:54But he's going to try to thread the needle.
27:56He's going to try to keep the America first supporters believing that whatever happens in
28:07these wars, including Ukraine, the U.S. is winning.
28:12I think that's the type of marketing mind tricks that he's trying to play with all this World War II stuff and this Yemen capitulate stuff.
28:21You see, he is trying to frame things as America is winning, even though we're having a rough time of it in all of these areas.
28:31Well, I agree.
28:32I think that's probably his thinking at the moment.
28:35I should also say that it's probably his own visceral instincts.
28:38I mean, he doesn't like to admit that America has lost.
28:44And I think that one of the reasons, one of the things that attracted him to Kellogg in the first place is that it appeared to offer a deal which did not look like America had lost.
28:58It actually froze the conflict in a way that could be packaged as saying that actually America won, that it won in Ukraine, which, of course, is exactly one reason why the Russians, who are in fact winning, are never going to accept it.
29:14I mean, obviously so.
29:16But I mean, I think there is that sort of visceral sense that Trump doesn't like ever to appear a loser.
29:23He doesn't like the United States ever to appear a loser.
29:27Now, I think you're probably summarizing what he's probably thinking at some level.
29:35But, of course, he is underestimating here his own people.
29:42The point is Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sean Davis have already seen through all of this.
29:51They've seen through the middle deal.
29:53They don't like the middle deal.
29:55The fact that it's going to be shown to them as, you know, this is what we're getting in return.
30:03We're going to get all our money back.
30:05They've already said that if it's a pathway to a deeper commitment in Ukraine, they don't like it.
30:12They oppose it.
30:13They don't want it.
30:14And, of course, what he's ultimately coming and saying to them is that, yes, we're not giving weapons to Ukraine anymore.
30:25We're giving Ukraine weapons on credit.
30:28Now, that amounts to the same thing, because the fact is you're never going to get your money back.
30:34And it's always a huge mistake in politics to underestimate the ability of your own people to see through these sort of games.
30:46And I think that people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is, I mean, she's fiery and, you know, whatever, but she comes across to me actually as a very intelligent person.
30:59And the other people in Marjorie will see through this and they will say, what earth are you doing?
31:06You're giving more money.
31:07You're giving more aid.
31:09You're piling in more money to Ukraine, all on the strength of a mineral deal, which is never going to produce anything.
31:16So I think that this approach might not work for Trump as he thinks it does.
31:25And we can already see that people within his own administration, like J.D. Vance, are already signaling that they don't agree.
31:31Meanwhile, Russia is continuing to make advances on the battlefield and China and Russia continue to get closer, closer aligned on Ukraine, which is big trouble for the collective West, for the U.S. and for Zelensky.
31:47Well, especially given that the whole point about Project Ukraine going backwards was to use Ukraine to actually pull Russia away from China.
32:04What it is doing to regime change Russia, regime change Russia and then go after China.
32:10And then instead, what's what's happening?
32:12Absolutely.
32:12Is exactly the opposite.
32:14They're coming ever closer together, as we're going to see over the next couple of days in Moscow.
32:21So it's wrong at every conceivable level.
32:26I have to say this.
32:27I said this on a program that I did recently on my channel, which is that my own sense is that the Trump administration is losing momentum on absolutely every front.
32:37Their economic policy is fracturing.
32:41The tariffs are being quietly dismantled.
32:46We now have talks with China, the start of talks with China, which the United States sought.
32:54I appreciate that, you know, the narrative in the U.S. is the other way around, that it was the Chinese who backed down.
33:01But it doesn't look like that at all to me.
33:04The Chinese have clearly said it was the U.S. that approached them for these talks.
33:10So we're going to start to see the tariffs against China.
33:13They're going to be brought down and dismantled.
33:15We've seen the whole negotiations in the Middle East.
33:19They're going nowhere at all.
33:21The Iran negotiations, it seems to me, are stuck.
33:24We have no real project on reindustrialization in the United States.
33:29Apple is talking about making its iPhones in India instead of China.
33:35Well, how does that help reindustrialization in the United States?
33:38It doesn't bring jobs back to the United States.
33:41If they're simply relocating their production from one Asian country to another Asian country.
33:49And, well, Ukraine, as we say, it's turning out exactly as it was before.
33:55We're just drifting back to the old failed policies, which everybody can see has failed.
34:01Apparently, there's even an intelligence assessment, which was prepared before the new team took over,
34:09which basically said that there is no weapons or number of weapons that the United States can supply,
34:17which can change the military equations in Ukraine any longer.
34:23So, you know, I get the sense that this is an administration that is losing momentum and is running out of steam on every front.
34:31And it started very strongly, but at some point, it began to lose focus.
34:41Yeah.
34:42All right.
34:43We will end the video there.
34:44TheDuran.locals.com.
34:45We are on Rumble, Odyssey, Picture, Telegram, Rockfin, and X.
34:48Go to the Duran shop, pick up some merch like what we are wearing in this video.
34:51Update.
34:51The link is in the description box down below.
34:53Take care.
34:53Take care.
34:53Take care.
34:54Take care.
34:54Take care.
34:54Take care.
34:55Take care.
34:55Take care.
34:55Take care.
34:55Take care.
34:56Take care.
34:56Take care.
34:56Take care.
34:56Take care.
34:57Take care.
34:57Take care.
34:58Take care.
34:58Take care.
34:59Take care.
34:59Take care.
34:59Take care.
34:59Take care.
35:00Take care.
35:00Take care.
35:00Take care.
35:01Take care.
35:01Take care.
35:02Take care.
35:03Take care.
35:03Take care.
35:04Take care.
35:04Take care.
35:05Take care.
35:06Take care.
35:06Take care.
35:07Take care.
35:08Take care.
35:08Take care.
35:09Take care.
35:10Take care.
35:11Take care.
35:12Take care.
35:13Take care.
35:14Take care.
35:15Take care.