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Ukraine Proxy War: Europe’s elites & US neocons want the dissolution of Russia — James Carden

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to James Carden, ex-advisor to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the US State Department. He discusses Trump’s remarks at an increasingly fractured NATO Summit and the continuing war on Iran, why he believes that the Trump administration isn’t serious about ending the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why Ukraine’s drone attacks against Russia don’t change the balance of power in the war, the goal of Europe’s leaders and American neocons being the dissolution of Russia and regime change, Russia’s mistakes since the 2014 Maidan coup, the team surrounding Trump believing the Ukraine proxy war should be continued, the window of opportunity for it to be ended closing by the day, why the US must use NATO as leverage to force Europe to abandon its hawkishness towards Russia, why he believes Trump’s threats to leave NATO are an act, the US-Israeli war on Iran being intrinsically linked to the Greater Israel project, and much more.

11.07.2026
28:20 min
11.07.2026
28:20 min
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Ukraine Proxy War: Europe’s elites & US neocons want the dissolution of Russia — James Carden
Twice a week, award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi and his team go underground to cover geopolitics and current affairs from a perspective you won’t find in the mainstream media, with some of the most high-profile guests.