Ambush in the White House – What now for Europe?

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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After the callous and cowardly attack on Zelensky in the White House, will support from European leaders be enough to compensate for Trump’s contempt for Ukraine? And does Starmer have a new job as official Trump Whisperer? Plus, back home, can Labour get the growth it needs without finally delivering for the North? Matt Kelly, editor-in-chief of The New European, co-host of podcast The Two Matts and real-life northerner joins us to thrash it out We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Ros Taylor and Alison Phillips. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Advertising helps to fund our podcasts, but we know that some people would prefer an ad-free listening experience.
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0:13.9	Follow the link in the show notes to find out more. Welcome to Oh God What Now, the increasingly aptly named politics podcast on today's show.
0:31.9	We count the cost of Trump and Vance's astounding punishment beating of Vladimir Zelensky in the Oval Office, and we look
0:38.4	at Europe's response. It's been described as the week the Western Alliance died, a mafia
0:43.0	shakedown by Trump and Vance against Ukraine, and by our old colleague Ian Dunst, as the single,
0:48.8	most appalling diplomatic spectacle of our lifetime. Where does it leave us? Does Britain's
0:53.6	effusive welcome for Zelensky
0:55.1	change the calculus at all? And will Stama's coalition of the willing be enough to protect
0:59.9	Europe and Ukraine from Putin's predatory intentions? Plus, back on the domestic front,
1:05.1	Labor has stated its future on growing the economy. Can the government get that growth without
1:09.6	rejuvenating the North? Let's
1:11.7	meet the panel. Alison Phillips is the former editor of the mirror and now a columnist everywhere
1:15.7	from the new statesman to the eye and the guardian. Hello, Alison. How are you?
1:18.4	Hello, I'm very well. Thank you. Welcome back to O Godwark now. Thank you.
1:21.5	So ordinarily, we start the podcast with a few little stories, but there's only one big story right now. I'm going to get into the detail of it later.
1:28.7	But how did you feel when you heard about Trump and Vance ganging up on Zelensky?
1:32.9	It was just awful.
1:34.2	I was at home, and then a friend of mine texted me, she was saying,
1:37.1	turn your telly on now.
1:39.0	Yeah.
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