DC Elites Cling to DELUSIONS About Ukraine While Trump Tries to End War

In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald investigates the ongoing war in Ukraine and the perspectives of political figures, including US President Donald Trump, on the conflict. He examines the delusional and misleading statements made by US and NATO officials about Ukraine’s ability to prevail against Russia, and Trump’s efforts to broker a diplomatic solution to end the war.

This video was produced by System Update and published on the Glenn Greenwald YouTube channel on the 19th of August, 2025.

To read the transcript of the interview: DC Elites Cling to DELUSIONS About Ukraine While Trump Tries to End War

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VIDEO: DC Elites Cling to DELUSIONS About Ukraine While Trump Tries to End War

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.