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Is Ukraine on the brink of collapse, and can Trump, Putin or Europe still end the war? Alexander Mercouris of The Duran joins me for the first time to step back from the daily news and analyse the Russia-Ukraine war as a whole. Alexander explains why this war is unlike any Russia has fought before. It carries an element of civil war over the Soviet legacy, and it pits Russia against NATO and the entire West without a single great power ally. We discuss how the West provoked the war through NATO expansion and the death of the Minsk agreements, as well as how Biden’s plan to break up Russia differs from Trump’s hope of winning it as an ally. Europe, however, after the collapse of its left, is gripped by war fever amid deepening economic stress. As Ukraine’s resistance breaks down, Russia will have to decide whether to cross the Dnieper. Meanwhile, the West faces an ugly peace, with a conflict set to outlast the war.