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00:00:00somewhere he will be able to show his
00:00:02character, his determination, possibly to achieve
00:00:06some additional results, then this is obviously foreign
00:00:09policy. Note that when now all analysts
00:00:13in unison say that Trump failed first
00:00:16of all due to failures in the Iranian
00:00:19direction, the topic of Russia, the topic
00:00:23of Ukraine is not mentioned at all, that is, what he
00:00:26did in the Russian direction, what he did not do in the Ukrainian
00:00:30direction is not blamed on him in
00:00:33any way by anyone, and for me this is a sign that he will be in
00:00:37this particular direction, unlike the Iranian one, to show
00:00:40consistency and even greater rigidity, especially
00:00:43since from my point of view he will now definitely consider
00:00:46both Zelensky and most European
00:00:50leaders his opponents, and maybe
00:00:53even enemies, because they obviously played on the Democrats' side against
00:00:56Trump and...
00:01:18Even a change of majority in both chambers does not guarantee a return to the policies of Joe Biden's time. The reason is not only
00:01:22Donald Trump's position, but also the exhaustion of American
00:01:26military stocks, the conflict with Iran and the change
00:01:30of the voters themselves, and what, in your opinion, will determine the volume
00:01:34of American aid to Ukraine and what can change the Democrats
00:01:38who have now gained the majority in Congress? Yes, look,
00:01:42the fact that the Democrats have a majority in Congress actually means that they
00:01:45will have significantly greater responsibility for the state
00:01:49of the American economy and, accordingly, the American
00:01:51budget. The leaders of various branches of government in the USA
00:01:55are changing roles, and now Trump will have
00:01:58the opportunity to complain
00:02:00to the Democratic Congress, to both chambers, that they are not letting him
00:02:04work, that they are violating the budget balance,
00:02:07that they are giving unjustified promises, in
00:02:11particular regarding further support for Ukraine, and this
00:02:14support, after some time, will already be deprived
00:02:18of any ideological or
00:02:20geopolitical flair, returning to earth, and
00:02:24the volume of this aid, answering your question, will depend
00:02:27solely on the capabilities
00:02:30of the American budget. The American budget is currently unbalanced, the American
00:02:33budget is currently simply mired in
00:02:37payments, payment of debts, 1.4
00:02:40trillion dollars annually goes only to
00:02:43service the US national debt. Here,
00:02:47as they say, it's not about Ukraine, in my opinion, especially since
00:02:50the Iranian plot is still unpredictable, and if
00:02:53something will extract money from the American budget, then
00:02:57it's the Middle East before Ukraine, I suspect.
00:03:30The President states that he is ready to work with the new Congress
00:03:33and promises to find common ground with opponents. The defeat of
00:03:36the Republicans also calls into question his influence within his own
00:03:40party, but Trump intends to negotiate on his
00:03:44terms. On social media, he published a photo of a
00:03:47red cap, with the word "veto" instead of the
00:03:50usual MAGA slogan. This is the right of the president to reject bills
00:03:54passed by Congress. To overcome such a
00:03:57ban, 2/3 of the votes are needed. A simple
00:04:01majority is not enough for the Democrats, and
00:04:04this is what Trump is counting on. They will send
00:04:07me bills, and I will veto them. And in
00:04:11the end, after a month or two, when all their
00:04:14initiatives are rejected, they will understand that it's just a waste
00:04:18of time. Then they will come to me, and we
00:04:21will agree. I think, most likely, that's exactly what will
00:04:25happen. But I hope that we won't have to worry about
00:04:28it at all. Well, what will the Democrats respond with?
00:04:32Most likely, they will also start blocking Trump's
00:04:35initiatives, they may start an investigation against him and even
00:04:39launch an impeachment. Konstantinovich, I want to
00:04:42ask you about impeachment, despite the fact that the Democrats
00:04:46clearly do not have enough votes to carry it out,
00:04:50yes, but nevertheless they can shower
00:04:53the current president with accusations and so on. I am
00:04:57interested in the Russian-Ukrainian
00:05:00track, because, of course, Trump's role
00:05:02in a possible settlement, it can
00:05:06be significant in the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian
00:05:09conflict. Do you believe that the Democrats can announce?
00:06:12President JD Vance, so the fuss around impeachment
00:06:16will be mandatory, but the impeachment itself, according to my predictions, will not
00:06:19happen under any circumstances. The Democrats have not yet
00:06:23started working in the new Congress, but they
00:06:26are already indicating who they intend to question. Here's
00:06:30what Hillary Clinton says, a short fragment of her
00:06:32interview. People like Elon Musk
00:06:36need government oversight, and I believe that starting in
00:06:39January, with the new composition of Congress.
00:07:22that is, to perceive this situation as a transfer of power from the president to Congress
00:07:25would be absolutely wrong, and the president remains in power, and
00:07:29Congress remains in power, they retain their
00:07:31powers, but each of these powers is very
00:07:35specific and they balance each other, so even
00:07:38if it comes to Congress's demands
00:07:41to open a case against Musk, to send
00:07:44Secretary of Defense Hexet into retirement, about which
00:07:47much is also being said now, to hold Mark Rubio accountable, for
00:07:51what is happening in Latin America, all this is quite possible, but
00:07:55the President of the United States of America is still Mr. Trump,
00:07:59he has every opportunity to protect his people
00:08:02and exempt them from criminal liability at least, but
00:08:06probably from political responsibility, yes, we just
00:08:09witnessed such a situation with Hunter Biden, what more
00:08:13can I say, but in your opinion, still, his role on the
00:08:16foreign policy circuit is very important, in your
00:08:20opinion, what do the election results change, say, in the dialogue between Moscow and
00:08:23Washington, and now, what to expect, for example, from
00:08:27tripartite negotiations on Ukraine in
00:08:30Abu Dhabi? Well, from my point of view, it would
00:08:33be completely wrong for us, from the Russian side, to react
00:08:36to what is happening inside the USA, this
00:08:40is still an internal American
00:08:43story, we worked and will work with the current
00:08:47US President, we will work with Congress, if and when
00:08:51Congress shows interest in restoring
00:08:54inter-parliamentary dialogue, so here, from my point of view, at least as far as
00:08:58the Russian side is concerned, nothing should change,
00:09:02it will be harder for Trump himself now, because
00:09:05for the previous 2 years he took responsibility for
00:09:09developing some compromises, for that...
00:10:18The only thing they offer others is fear of
00:10:21the left and mass migration, but this could not stop either
00:10:25of them. One of the few exceptions to this
00:10:28trend is the German AfD, which, in response to the conflict
00:10:31in Iran and absurd statements about Greenland, announced the restoration
00:10:35of German sovereignty. What do voters actually expect from
00:10:39right-wing parties on both sides of the Atlantic? I
00:10:42would suggest that this comment by the Irish
00:10:45blogger be slightly modified, if you replace
00:10:48"right-wing" with "centrists", in fact
00:10:51the meaning of his analysis will not change. We can say
00:10:55that centrists are losing everywhere, that they cannot
00:10:58offer anything to young people except to instill
00:11:01fear of the left and of the right. In fact, this
00:11:05problem for the West is now key. Traditional
00:11:09politicians still have little to offer in both domestic and
00:11:13foreign policy, excuse the tautology. This is
00:11:16where the growing popularity of the left and right comes from. I would
00:11:20certainly not draw any far-reaching conclusions, for example
00:11:24from... Orbán's defeat in Hungary. This is not so much a defeat
00:11:27of right-wing populism, it is the elimination of dissent
00:11:31within the European Union, within NATO. Orbán was simply
00:11:35dealt with, so to speak, by his more senior and more
00:11:38influential comrades. And if we look at France now,
00:11:41well, there is the opposite trend there. Ms.
00:11:44Le Pen is now the absolute leader in all
00:11:47polls for the elections that are coming next year. Therefore,
00:11:51I would definitely not generalize. I believe that the West as a whole
00:11:55is currently in a deep ideological crisis, first
00:11:57and foremost, and none of, well, let's say
00:12:01traditional or semi-traditional political forces can
00:12:05offer the population any coherent
00:12:08scenarios for solving problems and
00:12:11developing for the future. As for Mr. Trump, 2 years ago,
00:12:15when he won, everyone
00:12:18said that's it, the end of the Democrats,
00:12:21the blue wave was over, everything would be red now. Now
00:12:25after 2 years, the opposite story entirely, everyone says that
00:12:28it's the end for the Republicans. Dear
00:12:31viewers, let's understand that history is cyclical, and
00:12:35in 2 years or even four, we may have
00:12:39completely different trends. Konstantinovich, a question
00:12:42from our viewers, they leave their questions on
00:12:45the Zvezda News portal, here's how it sounds, you talked
00:12:49about preparing materials for an international tribunal over
00:12:52Zelensky, how realistic is the creation of...
00:14:03all this mass of information into a legal plane, I don't think this topic will arise in the near future in any way, moreover, no one is even raising this question, but sooner or later we
00:14:06will definitely get to this, because the guilt of
00:14:10the President of Ukraine, the so-called president and his
00:14:13entourage, undoubtedly exists,
00:14:17there are too many facts on this matter, it must
00:14:20be, as they say, placed under
00:14:24judicial supervision and control. From my
00:14:27point of view, this will happen when we are sure that such an
00:14:31international tribunal will indeed
00:14:34have authority, will have legal
00:14:37force, will be supported by a sufficient number of countries, it must be
00:14:41international, and not, so to speak, purely
00:14:44Russian. We have not reached that point yet,
00:14:48but this prospect should not be ruled out, and
00:14:51Ukrainian leaders should know this.
00:14:55Konstantinovich, at the end of our conversation today, I want
00:14:59to return to the elections in the United States and
00:15:02the video of the day we chose, this is San
00:15:05Diego, there voters were offered a completely different
00:15:09party, a four-legged one, and near the polling station
00:15:12they organized a real puppy therapy. Dogs,
00:15:15these were shelter dogs, could be petted, hugged, and even
00:15:19applied for adoption, and the organizers
00:15:22assure that animals help
00:15:25relieve pre-election stress, but it's hard to argue with that,
00:15:29although the election results certainly don't warm
00:15:32Donald Trump's heart. Konstantinovich, I sincerely thank
00:15:36you for this comment, we are always happy to welcome
00:15:39you in our studio, this was the program "Meanwhile", we
00:15:43air from Monday to Thursday at
00:15:4522:35 on Zvezda channel.