TALKS ON UKRAINE WAR

This edition of Spotlight focused on the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are planning to visit Moscow for talks on the issue. The guests on the program were political analyst Gilbert Doctorow, joining from Brussels, and economist and author John Edmunds, from Massachusetts. Doctorow believes that, given Trump’s and his allies’ crushing defeat in last week’s midterm elections, they desperately need a foreign policy success story. As a result, Trump is making every effort to achieve one by brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Edmunds also argues that the election results have made Republicans realize that the majority of Americans do not support their policies and that, for this reason, some changes need to be made. Hence, their renewed efforts to bring the war in Ukraine to an end.