Interview with Russia's Pivot to Asia Project, Paul Goncharoff

"No matter where you look in the world now, this spark of Ukraine...started fires globally. The sanctions, all of the...these extreme moves of [the US government] cancelling [Russia's access to] SWIFT, doubt of the dollar--deservedly. Incredible debts that are piled up, derivative debts. And this is all forcing people to look at what they were comfortably accepting of all their lives. All of these things now showing how fragile the house of cards is..." — Paul Goncharoff

ESW Eurasia Editor Stas Krapivnik interviews international businessman Paul Goncharoff on the Donald Trump vs Volodymyr Zelenskyy confrontation in the White House. The two men discuss Ukraine's widely touted mineral resources and the attempt of Zelensky's team to sell the same sub-surface rights twice: first to the Brits, then to the Americans.

Goncharoff discusses being born into a Russian descended family in the US and coming to the USSR for the first time in the late 1970s, the end of Pax Americana, the truth about many conspiracies and global events being suddenly "puked out" in short order (referencing JFK, Epstein, and much more). The two men also mention the arrest and disqualification of votes-leader Călin Georgescu who won a recently nullified election in Romania, and the death of democracy in the EU(SSR). Stas believes that while a united European Army with the French and Germans at its core would not be initially effective, if the EU elites have the stomach for their greenhorn troops suffering mass casualties against the Russians in Ukraine, a few EUroArmy brigades (not divisions) could be fielded in combat alongside the Ukrainians by mid-2026.

Goncharoff's bio from his previous website WGI.world, is below:

A native of Manhattan, Paul Goncharoff has lived and worked in Asia, the MENA region, Europe and, since the late 1990s, based full-time in Russia, achieving a solid reputation in the Russia/CIS business arena. Principal of Goncharoff LLC, he is dedicated to business management, development, integration, and consulting in relation to Russia/FSU markets, working with Russian and non-Russian companies wishing to operate in the Russian Federation and outside Russia, personally managing multicultural business, operations, and personnel in urban, regional, and remote areas of Russia/FSU.

Goncharoff also mentions toward the end of the interview that he's involved in the project Russia's Pivot to Asia, which is a newsletter covering all the ways Russia is divesting its trade from Europe and North America toward Eurasia, the Middle East and Africa. He also says the Trump Administration seems to be actually looking for some areas where it can ease sanctions and has ordered the Commerce Department to look into this. Goncharoff concludes by saying Washington even under Trump has "no chance in hell of prying Russia and China" apart, but some "pragmatism and deal-making" over rare earth metals and lithium seems possible. "Let's rethink the formulation of trade--it's happening anyway. It's a question of who is willing to ease up on the reins. America likes total control, it's grown used to it...but that train has left the station as well."

"Look, America's got a great future and potential...if it can just get down to doing business. I think Trump has the right idea to get the politicking out of it. Do it as a business. America's business is business. Always has been. We should've remembered that instead of going out to evangelize the world." — Paul Goncharoff