This podcast “Ukrainian Conflict and the Trump Reset with Russia” provides a comprehensive, chronological analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war from its historical roots to the present geopolitical impasse in 2025. It begins by tracing the conflict back to post-Soviet agreements like the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and NATO’s eastward expansion, which fueled Russian suspicions and strategic pushback. The narrative explores pivotal events such as the 2014 Crimean annexation, the Donbass uprising, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It highlights Ukraine’s fierce resistance, the West’s unprecedented sanctions, the role of big tech in information warfare, and the emergence of a digitally divided world order. The humanitarian cost, mass displacement, and battlefield realities from Bucha to Bakhmut are described alongside Ukraine’s tactical resilience and Russian recalibration toward territorial consolidation in the south and east.

The second half examines the broader geopolitical dimensions, including China’s cautious support for Russia, the role of BRICS, and Europe’s internal divisions on prolonging support for Ukraine. It analyzes the Trump administration’s controversial peace plan, which proposes territorial concessions in exchange for a ceasefire and reconstruction a proposal heavily criticized by both Kyiv and European capitals. The article closes by warning of a shifting global order where territorial aggression is normalized, and alliances are recalibrated. The Russia-Ukraine conflict, it argues, is not just a regional war but a defining struggle over the future of sovereignty, international law, and great power competition in the 21st century.

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