On this episode of Going Underground, we speak with Dr. Dmitri Trenin, member of Russia’s Foreign and Defense Policy Council and Former Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He discusses why, with the world at the precipice of nuclear war, the Ukraine proxy war is far more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis, the possibility of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons should current negotiations with the US fail, whether there are splits in the approach to negotiations in the Russian and US leadership, the leak of the Ushakov-Witkoff phone call and who could be behind it, why Donald Trump keeps caving to demands from European countries on Ukraine, Trump’s approach to pressuring both Russia and Ukraine into agreeing to a peace deal, Vladimir Putin’s aim to help the US distance itself from Ukraine, the tenets of the ‘28-point-plan’ and whether Russia is likely to accept it, the potential of Russian strikes against European targets in the event of Western provocations and false flags to torpedo a future peace agreement, and much more.
