Dialogue Works

Nima Rostami Alkhorshid:

1. What is your take on the changing or escalating dynamics between Russia and the United States, especially after Trump’s new deadline for Russia?
2. Why does Donald Trump seem to benefit more from continuing the Ukraine conflict rather than ending it?
3. How do you explain Europe’s ability to convince neutral countries like Switzerland and Austria to abandon neutrality, despite their leaders appearing disconnected from public opinion?
4. Do you think Russia still hopes for a major geopolitical agreement with the U.S. and China, like a “Yalta 2.0,” especially under Trump?
5. What do you anticipate will happen next in Gaza, especially after Lindsey Graham urged Netanyahu to “finish the job”?

Pepe Escobar:

1. Trump’s deadlines are meaningless theatrics. He doesn’t understand the Ukraine war’s roots as a U.S.-led proxy conflict, and even if explained, he’d never admit its failure. His statements are toxic noise dominating global discourse.
2. Trump is powerless to end the war. He can’t deploy troops or supply sufficient weapons. His threats are empty, and Putin likely sees him as a dangerous buffoon, not a serious negotiator.
3. European leaders like von der Leyen represent old money elites who control Brussels and national policies. Their power is protected by interlocking financial and political networks, making them untouchable despite public discontent.
4. Russia initially hoped for a “Yalta 2.0” with Trump and Xi, but Trump’s erratic behavior has destroyed any trust. He’s incapable of serious geopolitical negotiation and only pursues self-aggrandizing “deals.”
5. The West’s narrative of “Russian aggression” is a manufactured lie. In reality, the U.S. has provoked Russia for decades, and Europe is now suffering the consequences of its own subservience and delusion.

Larry Johnson:

1. Trump is impotent in foreign policy. He can’t end the war or change reality. His deadlines are performative nonsense, and no one—especially Putin—takes him seriously anymore.
2. Europe’s leaders are weak, delusional, and militarily incapable. Countries like the UK have tiny armies and lack the industrial base or logistics to sustain real combat, yet they provoke Russia recklessly.
3. Leaders like Macron were engineered by financial elites (e.g., Rothschild Bank). The French political system is a closed, incestuous circle protected by media and wealth, disconnected from the people.
4. The U.S. acts like a global arsonist, creating chaos in places like Southeast Asia to destabilize rivals. The Thai-Cambodian conflict, for example, likely has American fingerprints behind it.
5. Israel is heading for self-destruction. It’s overextended, losing soldiers to trauma and suicide, and internally divided. Like the Soviet Union, it may collapse under its own moral and strategic bankruptcy, not from external invasion.