Nina Khrushcheva: ‘It’s Putin and Trump against the world’

Three years into the Ukraine-Russia war, tens of thousands of people have died, and Russia occupies one-fifth of Ukrainian land. Russian and American officials met in Saudi Arabia for the first time since Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 to start peace negotiations.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, reversed his position on foreign policy and declared that Ukraine would not ally itself with NATO or relinquish all of its territory under Russian control. Trump recently compared Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a “dictator” and blaming Ukraine for starting the conflict.

With Trump’s most recent comments and actions, Europe is left to make predictions about the future of Ukraine and Europe’s wider security situation.

So what would a Trump-brokered deal look like for Ukrainians? And will it represent a fundamental shift in Russia’s global standing?

This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to historian, author and professor of international affairs Nina Khrushcheva.