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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