Frank Gardner
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
This vote was being called absolutely crucial, a day of destiny, a historic opportunity by various people, politicians, journalists, others. It needed to pass by two thirds, and it did. It's passed by 71%. This is the lower house. So the parliament, the Bundestag, it's still got to get through the upper house, the Bundesrat, on Friday, but that's thought to be now something of a formality.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
But it has been a race against time because this is the outgoing German parliament. The new one that sits for the first time on... The 25th of March, in a week's time, has got a stronger representation from the AfD, the Alternative for Deutschland, that's the far-right party, and Linke, the far-left party, both of whom strongly oppose these measures.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Well, yes. I mean, there are two reasons why Germany has been averse to this in the past. One is, as you rightly say, the historic reasons going back to 1945. And there is a strong neo-Nazi movement in this country. There is that risk politically, but also economically. Germany has been incredibly conservative for over a decade.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
And I think there is a growing acceptance amongst many people, certainly in the leading main parties, that this has possibly held back the German economy, and they are hoping that this huge uptick in borrowing, although fiscally risky, is going to stimulate the German economy. The other part of this, and what was approved today, is taking off the debt breaks of...
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
on how much money Germany can borrow, can go into the market to borrow for defense. And there's no limit to that. It could be hundreds of billions. And this is crucial because the rest of NATO and the EU were all looking very closely at what happened today. If this had stumbled at the first hurdle, this proposal, then it would have dealt a pretty serious knock
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
to Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission's plans for a project called Rearm Europe. And that's for an 800 billion euro fund.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Well, it's good news for Ukraine, this, because obviously Europe and Ukraine are extremely worried that the US support for Ukraine is shaky at best. And Europe has been scratching its head as to how they can try and fill that gap. Now, there are things that are going to be very hard to replace, like Patriot missile batteries and long-range artillery.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
But there's a lot of other stuff like artillery shells and drones that Europe can gear up its industry to doing. So this vote today, this will certainly help Europe sustain its assistance to Ukraine.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
I have no idea what is going to happen to the remaining hostages if the fighting keeps on going. It's an absolute disaster.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Chloropicrin is a rock control gas that causes intense irritation and pain in the eyes and lungs, forcing troops out of their trenches into the open, where they can then be picked off by drones and artillery fire. Its use in warfare is banned under Schedule 3 of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Russia has signed.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
But Ukraine says it has evidence that Russian troops have used it on nearly 5,000 occasions. As the commander of Russia's radiological, chemical and biological forces, General Kirillov was already sanctioned by Britain for his alleged role in ordering the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine. Russia denies it has used them.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
The accusations against General Kirillov are multiple and serious. As well as spreading disinformation, he was accused by Ukraine and its Western allies of ordering the mass use of a particularly unpleasant toxic chemical agent against Ukrainian troops in the Donbass.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
Today has been the day of the Russians sitting down with the Americans. They've spent at least ten hours, probably more, closeted in this luxury hotel, the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, the city I'm in now. I managed to get into the hotel and talk to some of the Ukrainian delegation. They haven't mixed at all with the Russians, as you can imagine.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
The Americans are trying to keep them apart, otherwise it's a kind of French farce. The Ukrainians are pretty upbeat. They had their own talks with the Americans yesterday. And these are at a technical level. It's not a senior level. These aren't familiar names, apart from the Ukrainian defence minister.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
He brought a big team with him, 25 people, energy experts, naval experts, military officers, diplomats. And what they've been doing is mapping out which energy industries facilities they want protected in a partial ceasefire. And obviously there will have to be Russian ones as well that are immune from attack as part of this deal. They've also been looking at the Black Sea, at shipping lanes.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
We don't yet know exactly what their demands are because almost nothing is coming out of the Russians at the moment. The Ukrainians have been talking. They would love to do a press conference. We may still get some kind of a statement. And then, of course, we've got to read between the lines. If it says frank discussions, it means they argued.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
If it says productive, it means just a little bit of progress was probably made.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
Yeah, there is a big gap between how the Americans portray this and how the Russians. Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy to these peace talks, a man who I have to say does not have a very good grasp of the areas. He couldn't even name the five oblasts, the five provinces in Ukraine that Russia has seized.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
And the narrative that he has been telling people in an interview that he did in the States over the weekend is basically the Kremlin's narrative. And that did worry people. The team that's over here, that's here in Riyadh, say they've had really good discussions with the Americans. They get on well with them. Some of the Ukrainians have been to US universities.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
They've spent time working and living in the States. So there is a kind of commonality there. The question, I think, the big question is how much pressure, if any, is the US side going to put on Russia to sign up to even this partial ceasefire? We already know they won't do the full 30-day
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
land, sea and air ceasefire because that was presented to Putin and he said not until lots of other questions are answered. So I think there is a concern in Europe and on the Ukrainian side that the US might be less than an honest broker here, that the Trump administration is more sympathetic to Putin's narrative than it is to Ukraine's.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
China, says Amnesty International, does not release figures for the number of people it puts to death each year. But researchers at the Human Rights Group say the figure for 2024 is in the thousands, making China the world's leading executioner.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
In their report just published, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia together make up 91% of the remainder, with governments accused in some cases of using the death penalty to silence political dissent. The report lists Iran as executing 972 people last year. The United States executed 25.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
Although the overall total of executions around the world is at its highest for a decade, the total number of countries carrying out the death penalty stands at 15, which is the lowest number on record.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
A source close to the Saudi government tells me it sent four official notifications, known as Notes Verbal, to the German authorities, warning them about what it said were the very extreme views held by Talib al-Abdam Mohsen. The source, who asked not to be named, said these notifications contained details about him.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Three were sent to Germany's intelligence agencies and one to the foreign ministry, but all the source said were ignored. Reports have emerged in the German media of the suspect's campaigns against his country's official religion, Islam, and of his fury at the policy of his adopted home, Germany, in letting in such huge numbers of Muslim refugees from the Middle East.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
He's also reported to have tried to help young Saudi women and critics of the government there escape from Saudi Arabia and seek asylum in Germany. In the past, there have been cases reported of of agents of the Saudi government carrying out surveillance on dissident Saudis living in Germany and Canada and attempts to bring them back to Saudi Arabia by force.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
Volodymyr Zelensky is in a race against time. He came here to Munich to plead with world leaders not to allow a rushed Trump-Putin peace deal that signed away his country's future security. Today, he told delegates that a flawed deal would simply play into the hands of the Kremlin.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
That may well involve trading access to Ukraine's vast mineral wealth for tangible U.S. security guarantees. So far, said Mr. Zelensky, those guarantees are not forthcoming, so he's not signed the deal. Meanwhile, he warned, Europe can no longer count on the U.S. to defend it, so Europe needed its own army.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
But Europe already has NATO. And America, despite all the seismic shocks the Trump team has been delivering this week, is not leaving NATO. Here's Finland's foreign minister, Alina Valtonen.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
And that idea, said Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, is not just about defense, it's about mutual economic interests.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
But here in Munich, the prevailing question remains. With US support now wavering, can Europe arm itself and Ukraine sufficiently and in time to fend off any future Russian aggression?
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
There are often more than one reason why somebody would want to do this. It's not always purely terrorism. It's not purely ideology. It can be mental. There could be all sorts of reasons, the stress that they're undergoing. They might have been fired. They might have died. Their wife or partner has left them. They might be extremely upset about something.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
There have been a number of similar attacks like this. For example, there was one in Nice some years ago where a Tunisian man used a lorry to mow down a large number of people. Around 80 were killed in the city of Nice in southern France. In this case, a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor. That's very unusual for a number of reasons. Very few of the terrorist suspects in Europe have been Saudis.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Now, obviously, the 9-11 plot involved a lot of Saudis, but that was a long time ago, 23 years ago. 50 is quite old, and it's... It's odd, this. I mean, there are a lot of things that don't really kind of stack up. There was no particular warning. I'm not sure that there was any particular spike in traffic or gossip or chatter, as it's known as in intelligence circles, about an imminent attack.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
That said, only two months ago here in the UK, the director general of MI5, Ken McCallum, said, look, we're dealing with a huge number of state threats, specifically Russia and Iran, but also terrorism hasn't gone away. And over 70% of the terrorism cases that they're dealing with are Islamist-inspired, i.e.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Al-Qaeda or ISIS-inspired, where people have got a grudge against the West generally for its policies, largely in the Middle East.
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Turkey protests: More than 1,000 people arrested in 5 days
The glittering opulence of Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton Hotel is the venue today for crucial talks aimed at pausing at least aspects of the war in Ukraine. The Russian delegation is on one floor, the Ukrainians, all 25 of them, are on another. The Americans have been meeting both, trying to live up to the rather optimistic expectations of President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
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Turkey protests: More than 1,000 people arrested in 5 days
The Ukrainians say their talks last night were productive. They brought with them technical experts from the energy ministry, as well as diplomats and naval officers to discuss how to safeguard Black Sea shipping lanes.
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Turkey protests: More than 1,000 people arrested in 5 days
The Russians are keen to revive a Moroban deal in the Black Sea, which allowed them to export farm produce and fertilizer in exchange for refraining from attacks on Ukrainian shipping.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
I think it's really about how much can be given away, where there is common ground and where there isn't. There's no disguising it. There is a huge gap between Ukraine and its European allies on the one hand and what the White House wants on the other. President Trump's team are impatient to end this war. Some would say at whatever cost. even if it's to Ukraine's detriment.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
And Europe's view is we need to continue supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes. Those are the words of Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, this morning. That is not the view in Washington, where they're saying, yeah, we still support Ukraine, but... We want a deal. Get it done. And we know what Russia's position is. They intend to not only hang on to the territory they've already taken.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
They want guarantees that Ukraine is not going to join NATO. There are going to be no NATO troops in Ukraine. And also, they want more land. Now, the big fear here in Munich is that a deal is going to be done, whether Europe and Ukraine like it or not, and that that is going to involve essentially selling out Ukrainian interests and allowing Russia to rebuild its army.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
And the fear is that Russia is going to simply come back and take the rest of Ukraine at a time of its choosing.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
No, we don't. He said that in that interview to me about a couple of hours ago when we recorded it. And that's another one of the themes here at this conference, that Europe has not exactly dithered, you know, fiddled while Rome burnt, but has been... rather slow to get its act together when it comes to organising enough money for defence.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
America is sending the very clear signal that the US taxpayer is no longer going to be expected to shoulder the bulk of the defence burden in supporting Ukraine and in defending Europe. It's time for Europe to stand on its own two feet. That's extremely unwelcome here because in terms of percentage of national wealth countries spend on defence, The NATO mandate is it's meant to be 2%.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
Now, big countries like Spain and Italy are not even spending 2% on defence. Poland is, and the Baltic states are, because they're close to the action. Britain is agonising over whether to raise it from 2.3% to 2.5%. America is saying, you guys have got to spend 5% if you hope to be able to defend yourselves and stop relying on us to do it for you.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
So it's a tough message coming from Washington and something approaching panic, I think, on the behalf of Europe.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
There's the whole issue about trade tariffs, et cetera, and a future trade war. But I mean, look, it's no surprise, I think, that Trump's attention is not really on Europe. Ultimately, he's much more interested in things like trade, securing the southern border with Mexico and China. That's where his interests lie. The Chinese foreign minister is here in Munich.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
There are going to, we're going to be hearing from him in a while. But that's where US attention is. So Europe is really feeling slightly left out in the cold.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
When Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy, not just to the Middle East, but also to the Ukraine talks, when he visited Moscow and met Vladimir Putin, Putin, whoever advised him on this, or maybe it was his idea, brilliant. He said... Er hat ihm gesagt, dass Präsident Putin zu der Kathedrale ging, um für Donald Trump zu beten, nachdem er geschossen wurde.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Er hat ein Bild veröffentlicht, das Witkow mit ihm zurückgebracht hat. Donald Trump war sehr betroffen. Wow, das ist der Weg, um ihn zu behandeln. Ich bin es leid, zu sagen, dass ich kein Respekt vor dem Präsidenten der Ukraine habe. Aber im Vergleich zu dem erstaunlichen Showdown im Oval Office am 28. Februar, wo zwei Präsidenten sich umeinmal schreien, That is not the way to do it.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
So Putin is playing Trump very cleverly right now. And there is clearly a very good personal relationship between those two. And Donald Trump is leaning over backwards as not to annoy Russia and to spare Russia from the tariffs. Ukraine's been slapped with a 10% tariff, which they've said we can cope with. It's not great, but it's not critical. How much has been slapped on Belarus and Russia?
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
So the idea that NATO is somehow gobbling up countries across Europe against their will and threatening Russia is a very tired and false narrative. NATO doesn't ask countries to join it. It's when countries feel threatened, they ask to join NATO.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
So all those countries that used to belong to the Warsaw Pact, which was the Soviet-run defence organisation that comprised countries like Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and so on, They've all joined NATO, including the Baltic states, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, because they feel threatened by Russia. Finland, which has jealously guarded its neutrality, as has Sweden, for decades.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
And Finland, remember, has fought two wars with Russia during the Second World War, just before it, and has been neutral all this time and has got an 800-mile-plus border with Russia. And yet it felt so threatened by Russia that... after the full-scale invasion of 2022, that it has joined NATO.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
So Moscow has brought this on itself, but none of these countries are threatening to attack, invade or in any way threaten Russia. It is, as Olga says, a false narrative.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Well, why don't you guys talk about Kirch, the Kirch Bridge.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
So, on air defense, Ukraine has advanced a long way since the dark days of 2022, when literally policemen were firing Kalashnikovs at Shahid drones that Iran was shipping to Russia. But this is a numbers game. And... Ukraine is slowly running out of effective air defense.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
It depends what you're, you know, if it's relatively low-grade Shahid-136 drones that Russia has manufactured using an Iranian model, they're fairly easy to hit. But it's much harder to shoot down certain missiles. And the hardest one of all was the one fired at Dnipro, the Oreshnik, which I think, correct me if I'm wrong, is Russian for hazel bush.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
This is a hypersonic missile that travels at speeds in excess of five times the speed of sound. It goes right up, high up, above the stratosphere or into the stratosphere and then comes down at such a speed that it's almost impossible to stop it. So they haven't got many of them, Russia, but that is a bit of a sort of, It's not an end of days weapon, but it's pretty scary.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
And that's even with the confessional warhead. Now, the thing that Ukraine is crying out for more of and desperately needs is patriots. They are extremely expensive. They cost millions of dollars and they wanted more under the Biden administration. He released a few. They want more under the Trump administration. They're not releasing any.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Some countries in Europe have got them, but some of them have been sent to Israel, for example. Und in Bezug auf das Verteidigen von Kherson?
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Thank you. Well, thank you for that, Maurizio. I'm not sure that they still call it the Red Army, but I presume by that you mean Russia's Army.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Europe has had a bit of a cold shower after the Munich Security Conference, where they have woken up to the fact that this administration in Washington, the Trump presidency, is no longer going to provide the automatic security blanket that Europe has enjoyed. oder manche würden sagen, für die letzten 80 Jahre, seit der Zweiten Weltkrieg. Es wird mehr für seine eigene Verteidigung geben.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Und das ist ein wirklicher politischer Hotpotato jetzt, weil die USA sagen, dass NATO-Betriebe bis zu 5% ihrer GDP, ihrer nationalen Werte, Das wird wirklich hart sein. Auch Amerika spart nur 3,3, 3,4 Prozent. Länder wie Spanien sparen nur 1,6 Prozent. Und es kommt ein Zeitpunkt, in dem es große Anforderungen auf Gesundheit, auf Wohlfahrt, auf Straßenbau, Krankenhäuser, Schulen gibt.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
All die täglichen Dinge, auf die die Regierungen den Geld sparen sollten. Es wäre viel besser, wenn es keine Bedrohung von Moskau gäbe. But there is, and Europe's defenses are run down. They are decrepit and not able, you know, the armories have been emptied out to support Ukraine.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
If there was a war tomorrow, a conventional war in Europe, Britain's army would run out of ammunition in less than two weeks. And the numbers are tiny. So there is a big move. I've just recently been in Berlin covering the Bundestag, the German Parliament vote to lift, to remove the brakes on defense spending. So potentially spending hundreds of billions of euros on defense.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
They don't have the technical capability that the Americans have. And so even though you can pour money into European defense, they are still many, many years behind some of the capabilities that the Americans have. So the idea that Europe can do this divorced from the US is not realistic. But it's hard to tell exactly what President Trump wants.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
One moment he's saying, Europe, you've got to spend more on your defense. Well, slapping a load of tariffs on Europe and hurting European economies is not exactly going to enable that defensive build-up.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
There are two reasons, and Vitaly has mentioned one of them. Moscow is adamant that it won't accept NATO-member troops in Ukraine, whatever badge or beret they're wearing. Secondly, those countries that have signed up to it, in theory, are saying, yeah, but that's conditional on a US backstop, a US security guarantee, which the US is not prepared so far to commit.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
So I think the most we can hope for is some kind of maritime policing in the Black Sea. and possibly air patrols based in Poland and Romania. But, you know, you do not want to have a situation where, let's say, a small unit of Russian tanks advances a few kilometers into Zaporizhia Oblast and French Rafale aircraft fire on them and suddenly you've got World War III.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
You know, the Biden administration, for all their many faults in this, have... tried really hard to empower Ukraine, in their words, so as to get to a position where it would be in a strong position in peace talks, which hasn't really happened, but without coming into direct conflict with Russia. And that's what everybody is still trying to avoid.
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As it is allegedly done in Georgia and Romania.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
So there are several different aspects to this war. There is, you know, land, sea and air domains and cyber. And... In the maritime domain, Russia is having a hard time. Ukraine is essentially winning that. They've driven the Russian Black Sea Fleet right out of Crimea, Russian occupied Crimea. They've driven them back to the Caucasus effectively, even though Ukraine doesn't have a navy.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
They've developed some incredible ingenuity in long range drone strikes. They're able to hit with extraordinary accuracy. Ammunition dumps, air bases, oil refineries, hundreds of kilometers beyond the border, deep in Russia. Russia is very interested in having a ceasefire in those two areas, because that's where Ukraine is hurting it.
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What it is not interested in having a ceasefire or any kind of pause is the land battle, because through sheer force of numbers of artillery rounds, of drones and of human weapons, Vielen Dank.
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No, it's not. This is an annual mobilization. Sorry, it's not mobilization. It's the conscription, which is different from mobilization. I know it sounds semantic, but there's a big difference in these words. Mobilisierende Reserven wären eine Krise-Messung. Das würde wirklich zeigen, dass er Probleme hat. Das ist das Anrufen der Reserven, um zu kämpfen. Konskription, was das ist, ist das Zweite.
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Sie machen es im Frühjahr, sie machen es im Sommer und es geht um etwa 10.000 pro Jahr. Also im Jahr 2022 waren es rund 134.000. 140.000 oder so im nächsten Jahr, 150.000 im letzten Jahr und dieses Jahr sind es 160.000. Theoretisch werden keine dieser Männer in der Ukraine oder in der russisch beschlossenen Donbass oder in Kursk serviert. Aber in der Praxis ist das bekannt geworden. Ja.
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I think we should say it has a dreadful reputation. Conscription and life for conscripts in the Russian army is brutal. If you haven't got connections, I mean, in the British army, in which I served, during their time in conscript service. So people who've got connections, if you're a well-connected family in St. Petersburg or Moscow, you make sure you get out of it.
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Marco Rubio war derjenige, der nach den Jetta-Talks vor ein paar Wochen gesagt hat, dass der Ball jetzt in Russland gespielt wird. Und so hat die Welt gedacht, aha, endlich ist die USA ein ehrlicher Verkäufer in all dem. Und plötzlich ist nichts passiert. Und keine offene Druck wurde auf Moskau gelegt.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
I went down to Riyadh, I covered the second lot of ceasefire negotiations and hopes were very high at the end of it because there seemed to be some kind of agreement. But then afterwards, Russia introduced a whole lot of more stipulations that they wanted. They wanted essentially the sanctions lifted on agricultural banks so they could export stuff.
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And that would be a way, a crack in the Western sanctions on Russia, which the EU was certainly very unhappy with and so would NATO be. I think Putin has played quite a clever game.