1). “Amb. Chas Freeman on Trump: Keeping Promises or Breaking Them?”, Mar 21, 2025, Nima Alkhorshid inteviews Chas Freeman, Dialogue Works, duration of video 42:05, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
2). “Chas Freeman EXPLAINS Why Trump and Zelensky Argued”, Mar 1, 2025, Jyotishman interviews Chas Freeman, India and Global Left, duration of video 52:51, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Introduction by dmorista: Chas Freeman is a left-leaning former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and worked in a large number of high level jobs for the U.S. State Department. He recently retired from a post at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. His views on events that have taken place in the U.S. and in various foreign places, here specifically Ukraine and Israel (Gaza) are informed by his long career. “He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972.” (See “Biography, Chas Freeman Jr.”, at < https://chasfreeman.net/
In Item 1)., “Amb. Chas Freeman ….”, the former Ambassador points out that Trump has virtually no knowledge of foreign affairs. In the first part of the article he points out that Trump, beholden for years to numerous rabid Zionist campaign contributors, really doesn't have an independent agenda when it comes to Israel. He merely carries out a policy agenda dictated to him by Benjamin Netanyahu and the Zionist funders he interacts with. The U.S. is once again battling the Houthis, after a 2 month hiatus when the Gaza Cease Fire was in effect, now violated by Israel it is not in effect any longer. The Houthis are, of course, based in Yemen and their activities hijacking ships has pushed various types of shipping to avoid the Suez Canal and use the much longer route that goes around Africa rather than through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean. This imposes significant extra costs on the global shipping industry. Freeman points out that Trump is under pressure from the Israelis and Domestic American Zionists to attack Iran (Netanyahu makes no secret of this and has been advocating an American War on Iran since the late 1970s). In the second part of the article Freeman discusses the grim situation that Ukraine is in, and that fact that no cease fire has been agreed to in the Ukraine / Russia proxy war.
Houthi Suez Map
In Item 2)., “Chas Freeman EXPLAINS ….”, that was recorded shortly after the famous Televised interview in which Trump and J.D. Vance bullied Zelensky and finished the meeting by telling him to leave the White House. Later in the show Freeman points out that studies of historical developments have shown that countries seem to have a lifespan of about 225 – 250 years after which corruption and unjust socioeconomic conditions become intolerable. The U.S. is 240 years old.
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