Yaroslav Trofimov

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215 appearances 7 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 1 Jul

Yaroslav Trofimov’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WSJ What’s News · Trump-Backed Paxton Wins Texas GOP Primary · 27 May 2026 podcast

Instead, he's now bogged in a war that has lasted into its fifth year, with Russia being shut out of the international trade and markets and subjected to some of the most severe sanctions ever.

Well, yes.

I mean, there are no trends going in Russia's favor right now.

That's the issue for Putin because there is a psychological turning point that happened in January when this war against Ukraine has lasted longer than the Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany.

And so now there is this broad dissatisfaction in Russia as people are saying, well, you know, what are we doing?

We're now in our fifth year.

Our cities all over Russia are being bombed by Ukrainian forces.

And we're not able to stop that.

We're not able to advance to the battlefield.

So something is wrong.

And so I think a way of reshuffling the situation could be for Putin to expand the war to easier targets, such as the Baltic states, especially now that he is coming to the conclusion that

The so-called Alaska deal, the Anchorage deal with President Trump that they struck last August is not going to materialize.

And at the time, if you remember, the U.S.

basically offered Russia the portion of the Donetsk region of Ukraine that Russia has not been able to conquer as a condition for a ceasefire.

And Ukraine has refused to hand over this territory.

And so Russia is looking at this and saying, well, you know, we cannot cash in this American check.

We cannot invest in the battlefield.

So what else do we do?

WSJ What’s News · Pentagon Says Iran Attacks Don’t Rise to Level of Restarting War · 5 May 2026 podcast

What they are saying is that they think that the U.S.

is in a rush to extricate itself from the conflict and that the U.S.

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