President Trump says he knows how the Ukraine war began and will release the details. Barbara Boyd explains why that threatens the Deep State, and why Europe and Canada are marching toward suicide with Zelensky.
Barbara Boyd opens with President Trump’s remarks to reporters on Friday, before his Georgia rally, about Ukraine’s President Zelensky: he knows the details of how the war began, and at some point he will release them. She argues that the real story of the war’s origins threatens what remains of Washington’s Deep State, and is driving Europe and Canada into acts of state suicide to keep the war going. The episode follows the President’s push to bring down diesel prices ahead of the November 3 midterms, from the threatened U.S. export ban and the emergency diesel stocks of France and Germany to the Treasury license for Russian diesel, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on America First. It covers the peace plan Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff discussed with Ukrainian and European officials in Florida, as reported by David Ignatius, the restriction of Starshield, and the President’s Newsmax interview. It then turns to the European and Canadian response: Anne Applebaum on the Ukrainian army, the EU summit in Brussels and Ukraine’s €70 billion financing gap, Ukraine’s shortage of Patriot interceptors, the IMF’s growth forecasts for Europe, the polls in France and Germany, and Mark Carney’s 100-Year Partnership Declaration with Ukraine. It closes with President Trump’s 2016 ABC interview on Russia and Crimea, Scott Horton’s book Provoked, and what is at stake on November 3.
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up – Did Trump Just Cause Europe to Commit Suicide or Are They Just Doing It Themselves – October 17, 2026
02:21 Ukraine Developments
06:20 Canada and Europe Make a Suicide Pact
09:36 Ukraine and Bringing Down the Deep State
