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 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
02:21 Ukraine Developments
06:20 Canada and Europe Make a Suicide Pact
09:36 Ukraine and Bringing Down the Deep State

Credits
Photos
- President Trump and President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, February 28, 2025: Official White House Photo (Daniel Torok) and frames from the White House video of the meeting, public domain
- Kyiv, February 18, 2014: Аимаина хикари, CC0
- Provoked by Scott Horton (The Libertarian Institute, 2024), cover
Video
- President Trump speaking to reporters, October 16, 2026: One America News
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio, October 15, 2026: Breitbart News
- President Trump, October 15, 2026: Newsmax
- Barack Obama leaves Glasgow, October 15, 2026: STV News
- Anne Applebaum, October 16, 2026: Kyiv Independent
- Donald Trump on This Week, July 31, 2016: ABC News
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Guardian (September 24, 2026); Reuters (October 1, 2026); GuildHall News Agency (September 11, 2026); U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); The Washington Post, David Ignatius (October 12, 2026), as reported by Kyiv Post (October 13, 2026); The New York Times (October 14, 2026); Financial Times (October 16, 2026); Politico Europe (October 16, 2026); The Washington Post (October 15, 2026); Kyiv Post (October 13, 2026); Prime Minister of Canada, joint statement with President Zelenskyy (September 10, 2026) and news release (September 15, 2026); Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (October 9, 2026); Congressional Ukraine Caucus, members
Data: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026); polls: OpinionWay (October 13, 14, 2026), INSA (October 12, 16, 2026)

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 15th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week: Europe prepares war and censorship, and Zelensky must go. Days after President Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and struck a diesel deal with Putin, Zelensky ran home to London, where King Charles and Prime Minister Burnham promised more war aid. Twelve senators now demand Trump rescind the diesel deal. Meanwhile the censorship model spreads from Australia to Carney's Canada and Germany.

On the board: the senators' letter against the diesel deal, London's war push, the censorship playbook, and the pollsters three weeks before the November 3 midterms.

Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
00:37 Trump and Putin's Diesel Deal
03:13 Zelensky Runs to the King
05:09 Barbara: This Is the End of NATO
11:50 Susan: The Empire Since 1971
15:42 Bessent Fires Back at the IMF
18:42 Nuclear Power: The Globalists' Red Line
32:02 The Polls Are Demoralization Ops
53:21 No Blue States, Only Blue Cities
57:48 Your Gas-Price Questions
1:04:49 Barbara: It's Them, Not Trump
1:13:07 Barbara: The DSA Is the Party
1:16:38 Why Trump Won't Prosecute Obama
1:21:55 Retribution Is Success
1:38:07 Navarro's Manufacturing Briefing
1:41:37 Afraid? Get Your 10
1:52:06 Bretton Woods: Roosevelt Died
2:03:21 Closing: Get 10, 20 People

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Susan Kokinda opens with the European Union's largest expansion of its Russia sanctions list since the war began, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling Europe's objections to the U.S. Russia diesel deal "completely hypocritical", since Europe is still Moscow's biggest gas customer. The episode follows the reactions to President Trump's diesel deal, from Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and Boris Johnson to the EU's foreign ministers, set against President Trump's post on the European Union paying Russia $250 billion for energy and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak's figure of $320.7 billion since 2022. It then turns to the IMF. World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, where IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said growth alone cannot fix U.S. debt and deficits, the headlines that followed, and the IMF's playbook since Bretton Woods ended in 1971. It closes with Secretary Bessent skipping the meetings for "domestic engagements", and Peter Navarro's White House progress report on America's manufacturing investments: over 500 projects, more than $380 billion in announced investment, mapped across the country.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:41 Trump Forces the Empire's Hand
04:25 IMF Says: Growth Doesn't Work
07:00 The Empty Chair

Credits
Photos
- Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelensky, Kyiv, April 9, 2022: Office of the President of Ukraine, CC0
- Kristalina Georgieva, Davos, January 20, 2026: Isaac Castillo/Presidencia de la República del Ecuador, public domain
- Peter Navarro, White House press conference, October 9, 2026: frame from Real America's Voice coverage
Video
- Secretary Bessent on Fox & Friends Weekend, October 11, 2026: U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Kaja Kallas, press conference after the Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, October 12, 2026: © European Union, 2026 (EU Audiovisual Service)
- Kristalina Georgieva, IMF press briefing, Bangkok, October 14, 2026 (AP)
- Peter Navarro's White House press conference, October 9, 2026: Real America's Voice coverage
- President Nixon's address to the nation, August 15, 1971: Richard Nixon Presidential Library (White House Communications Agency), public domain
- Demolition of the Rugeley cooling towers, June 6, 2021: Voice of Clam (Wikimedia Commons), public domain
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Graphics: U.S. manufacturing investment maps, White House / Office of Trade and Manufacturing
Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Brussels Times (October 12, 2026); Prime Minister of Canada, readout of the call with President Zelenskyy (October 11, 2026); on X: @BorisJohnson (October 10, 2026); Euronews (October 12, 2026); on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 12, 2026); FRANCE 24 (October 13, 2026); Bloomberg (October 13, 2026); CNBC (October 14, 2026); Reuters (October 9, 2026)
Data: Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), buyers of Russian gas, December 5, 2022. August 31, 2026

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