Jon Finer

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Furious World Leaders Freeze Trump Out of New Alliances · 11 Jan 2026 podcast

But they want that.

They want this better relationship.

And they see the end of the Ukraine war as a necessary step

to having a better relationship with russia and their way of going about ending the ukraine war is exactly the opposite of what would be just and right it is instead of putting pressure on russia to make the compromises necessary for a just end of the war that ukraine can live with they have decided they need to put their pressure on ukraine to make massive compromises uh to modify russia

But the punchline is really where you started, which is even in spite of that, they cannot get Russia to say yes to wanting to end the war because it is quite clear, as you laid out, that Vladimir Putin does not want that.

So my expectation is as bad as it is that they are putting so much pressure on Ukraine to essentially capitulate to Russia, Russia may ultimately end up saving us from ourselves, Ukraine from Trump.

by saying we're not ready to end the war.

Now, the bad part about that is this war may continue for some time until the US wises up and realizes that the only way to end it is to put enough pressure on Russia to do a just deal.

Yeah, so 2026 is off to a roaring start.

And to be honest, I think this is going to be a very fateful year.

It's gonna be a very fateful year in the world because we are rapidly pushing towards a kind of inflection point, I think, in Europe on the Russia-Ukraine war, as we've been discussing.

In Asia, it's going to be a very fateful year because it is quite clear that President Trump is seeking a grand bargain, a big deal that tries to resolve all the outstanding issues with China.

And the big question is, at whose cost?

At the cost of U.S.

competitiveness when it comes to sensitive technologies and the technologies that are going to define the future like AI.

at the cost of our allies and their ability to deter Chinese aggression.

All of that seems also likely to come to a head.

We've got the Venezuela situation and how that continues to evolve and maybe deepen the US role.

And the amazing thing about all of this is, all of this is our crises that the United States has more or less generated and manufactured through American policy.

The world has a tendency to throw

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