Article 5, Federalization and US Air Support (TheDuran)

0:00 - Discussion on US-Russia diplomacy and security guarantees
0:50 - Clarity on the Russian position regarding security guarantees
3:02 - Overview of the Istanbul agreement and Russia's stance
4:52 - Lavrov's comments on NATO troops and the conflict's root causes
6:07 - Ukrainian rejection of Russian language and Orthodox Church recognition
8:01 - Discussion of security guarantees and involved nations
10:44 - Boris Johnson's influence on the Istanbul agreement collapse
11:58 - Russia's position on security guarantees with NATO countries
13:16 - Trump's handling of security guarantees and US leverage
15:12 - Russia's military position and the potential for a peace agreement
17:00 - The academic nature of the security guarantees discussion
20:03 - The challenges of negotiating security guarantees
22:45 - Discussion on the neocons and Trump's interactions with them
30:01 - Potential upgrade of negotiation teams with Putin and Zelensky
32:57 - Future trilateral talks and potential locations for negotiations
41:14 - Conclusion and summary of the discussion



All the talk about creating a 'security guarantee' is academic, as Alexander points out. Russia simply will not allow any of the countries that have been supporting the war to provide a security guarantee for Ukraine. The only way for Russia to avoid fighting again in the future is if Ukraine is demilitarised where Russia, and an allied country to Russia, provides the security for that nation. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 23, 2025.]