Russia has been brought in from the cold
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has reached out to Vladimir Putin, over the heads of Ukraine and Europe. The Western alliance is fracturing, so what comes next? Can European nations find the defence budget? And whose terms will this war end on?
Hannah Barnes is joined by Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of War Studies at Kings College London, and later in the programme by the New Statesman's associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe, and the former justice secretary David Gauke to discuss the future of our prisons.
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| 1:35.2 | A little later, I'll be joined by the former Justice Secretary David Gork and our associate political editor, Rachel Cunliff, to speak about the future of our prisons. |
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| 1:48.5 | The fracturing Western Alliance and what it means for Europe's future role in the world. |
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