Government leaders
Peter Zalmayev: 'Ukraine was showing all sorts of cards that Trump took away and gave to Putin'
Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Peter Zalmayev, Founder and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, LIVE from Kyiv. And he warns, "I'm seeing, I'm smelling a Yalta II. I'm smelling another Munich (1938), where we're seeing appeasement of the aggressor." With this striking historical analogy, Zalmayev captures what he considers the central danger facing Ukraine: the possibility that its sovereignty and security could become bargaining chips in an era Zalmayev describes as great-power "collusion". Zalmayev delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's approach to Russia,