Jimmy Rushton: Foreign Policy Analyst on the potential meeting between Trump and Putin

The prospects of a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may be crumbling faster than they've formed.  

The Kremlin says the US President and his Russian counterpart have agreed to meet in the "coming days".  

But the New York Post is quoting Trump's officials, saying this is not the case.  

Foreign Policy Analyst Jimmy Rushton told Mike Hosking Putin is burning through astonishing amounts of manpower for relatively little strategic progress.   

He says Putin thinks he can outlast the West, but Ukraine would rather fight than accept poor peace terms. 

Rushton says many people have taken what Moscow's selling and run with it, and it shows desperation from the Kremlin for it to pretend it is ready for peace. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Too much to hope for Trump and put In getting
together maybe next week in a room. Who would believe
this is Zelenski out of a call yesterday. Of course
the guest to put in this favoring the ceasefire secondary
terror threats may have had an effect. This is India.
They're not happy, of course. And there's another one of
these Trump did lines that expires tomorrow. Trump remember said,
we're twelve fourteen days from Turnbrey. You've got to sort
this war out anyway, Jimmy rushed in foreign policy expert

(00:21):
in keys back. Well, there's Jimmy morning, Good morning. Anything
going to come with us.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's really difficult to say. So obviously there was the
news reported that there was a bilateral meeting between Trump
and Putin agreed. But now the New York Post, which
has relatively good sourcing within the Trump administration, have come
out and quoted Trump administration officials are saying that this
is not the case and that the Kremlin claims of

(00:49):
a one on one were false. So it seems like
a lot of people took what the Kremlin was selling
spinning right, and I've run with it. I do think
it shows the Kremlin is feeling the pressure that they
feel the need to pretend that they are ready for
peace because of the sanctions you said secondary sanctions as well.

(01:12):
But I don't think we're getting close.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Unfortunately, on the field, if I'm putent, I'm winning, Do
I want a meeting, do I want to cease fire
or not?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think winning is too strong a word to use.
I mean, they are advancing, but they're nowhere close to
gaining anything strategically. They're gaining a few kilometers of destroyed
territory in these to Ukraine, but it's not economically productive
and it doesn't bring them any closer to actually ending
the war. And they're also burning through, you know, astonishing

(01:43):
amounts of manpower and material to gain this relatively useless land.
So you know, for Putin, he probably thinks that he
can outlast the West. But you know, from the Ukrainian perspective,
they are you know, they're still fighting, they're still holding strong,
and they would rather continue to fight than to, you know,
to accept a deal on really poor terms.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Good stuff, Jimmy, appreciate your update, Jimmy Rushton. So that's
going nowhere, seemingly of Jimmy's running, I suspect he is.
By the way, I've got a yacht for you, one
of the Oligark's yacht. One of the things they're doing,
I don't know if this is real, is that they're
working with Oligarks who were tight with Putin. This is
the Americans. They're about to auction this yacht, by the way,
it's the first one to be auctioned from the stuff
they seized when the war started. But they're working with

(02:23):
Oligarks who were tight with Putin to put the pressure
on him to come to the table. So we'll see
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