Aaron Mate gives a pretty good primer.
Simplicius has a particularly good 10 minute section of the 50 minute encounter, which gives a somewhat different view from US centrist MSM which of course castigates Trump. Simplicius and many other recommend viewing the entire 50 minutes (I have not yet done that).
Historian Doctorow calls this "historic"
Duran (on youtube link below) emphasizes that the Minerals Deal was originally Zelensky's idea, and all sides seemed set to accept a no-explicit-security-guarantees version Trump had offered him until Zelensky started trying to renegotiate that with Trump on camera...making this NOT a set-up but a real live dramatic and pivotal (though probably predictable by all involved) "negotiation" that ended in failure for Zelensky because he was demanding too much...something Trump had already ruled out...and what Zelensky was (and has been) demanding is basically a nuclear WW3 NATO response to defend Ukraine, because otherwise NATO is running out of conventional stuff and Ukraine is running out of conscriptables to keep this war going.
I have never voted for Trump, I have never donated to Trump, I have always supported leading Trump opposition candidates, and I haven't supported anything else President Trump has done. In fact
for those other things he has been and might do I have great anger and fear for our constitutional republic, let alone our economy and the health and safety of our citizens.
But on these two things--restoring relations with Russia and ending support for the War in Ukraine--he has exceeded my most rosy expectations so far. (If in fact the world is saved from nuclear annihilation by his avoiding WW3, they may be the two most important things.)
I've learned from long concert attendance, that it's best to give the
standing ovation to the work that truly inspires you, rather than wait
until the end by which time your enthusiasm may have dimmed or even been canceled. So I immediately wrote a letter to Trump, thanking him.
Other than reinforcing an already existing precedent that Presidents can even withdraw from treaties when those treaties themselves forbid that option, I'd even be fine with Trump pulling out of NATO. NATO has long proven to be imperial overreach in many places, most obviously Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Serbia, where it has indeed operated as an offensive alliance. (My own interpretation of the war in Ukraine is that too: It's NATO's offensive war on Russia by proxy.)
It would be better if NATO were officially discarded by the treaty-required Senate vote. But NATO is really just a cover for US imperialism anyway. It's driven by the US geopolitical agenda, and powered by the military prowess and economic power of the US. It actually doesn't commit anyone to anything. If the US simply ignores NATO, nothing is likely to happen. Britain's 60 operational tanks aren't going to make much difference, nor the 12,000 or so "peacekeeping" troops it might scare up
Despite much ranting and raving in NATO-owned European governments and "centrist" Atlantacist media and parties throughout the West, they are not going to do anything except said ranting and raving.
The entire "need" for NATO from the beginning was (#1) US Imperial ambition, #2 Russia/Commie phobia, and (#3) Western misrepresentations of events surrounding the end of WW2.
When the Soviet Union fell, even many former anti-Soviet hardliners were calling for bringing NATO to an end. (Instead, that's when NATO's most aggressive and least "defensive" phase began.)
But amidst all the anti-Russian hysteria what is never noticed is how most of the aggressive wars of the last 80 years, and in particular the last 25, have been driven by US and not Russian imperialism.
Russia has played a more conservative role surrounding it's old but still ethnic Russian populated border areas, and the US has tried to push them into war by inflaming eliminationist movement like the re-emergent and neo- Nazis in Ukraine whose fervor is based on pushing Russians out. Meanwhile, I see few if any Russian errors here, deviations only follow US precedents except with better justifications, whereas the US errors are immense.
If only Johnson had treated Diem like this, the Vietnam war could have been avoided.
Now if only the Zelensky treatment could be dished out to Netanyahu, rather than his usual being waited on hand and foot. Then we could really and earnestly think about the end of US Imperialism. It must end soon, if the world is to survive.
And if only Trump could drop the rest of the US Imperialist agena upon the Global South, in particular Venezuela and Cuba, Trump could capitalize on his success in dumping Zelensky by winning back the hearts and minds of the Global South which Biden and his predecessors trashed.
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