The Powers That Be: Daily
The Powers That Be: Daily
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Is Trump Abandoning Ukraine?
21 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Julia Ioffe joins Peter to examine how Donald Trump brokered an oil export deal with Russia to ease energy costs, despite the uncomfortable reality that it could help fund Vladimir Putin’s war machine in Ukraine. Julia explains that Trump is standing firm, even as plenty of Republicans on Copitol Hill object to the energy agreement—which experts say is still unlikely to bring down gas prices before the midterms.