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Trump’s Deference to Putin and His Unwillingness to Press For a Ceasefire and Sanction Russia If It Refuses Stuns European Leaders

We begin with the phone call Trump had with five European leaders and Zelensky after his call with Putin yesterday that left them feeling surprised and shocked at Trump’s deference to Putin and his failure to call for a ceasefire or impose penalties on Putin for refusing to do so. Joining us to discuss whether Trump is faking a negotiation and is planning on walking away and selling out Ukraine while making a separate deal with Putin to restore US ties is Alexander Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University.  A specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction including Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires and Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective.

As the UK, France and Canada Condemn Israel’s Gaza Offensive and the Starving of Children, Trump Does Not Come To Netanyahu’s Defense

Then with the UK, France and Canada condemning Netanyahu’s ground invasion of Gaza while it starves the enclave’s women and children, we speak with Asher Kaufman Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and a professor of History and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to that, he taught at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He was a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and headed its Middle East Unit and he has an article at The Conversation, “Trump heads to the Gulf aiming to bolster trade ties – but side talks on Tehran and Gaza could drive a wedge between US and Israel.”

A South African Perspective on Trump’s Welcoming of Its White “Refugees”

Then finally we go to South Africa ahead of tomorrow’s White House visit by its President Ramaphosa and speak with Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilization at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. His books include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa: An Anti-capitalist Critique, Looting Africa and Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms and we discuss Trump’s welcoming of white “refugees” from South Africa while he eagerly deports 350,000 Venezuelans followed by Afghans who face death from the Taliban.