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Europe is breathing a sigh of relief. On December 2nd Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, held lengthy talks about Ukraine with Vladimir Putin in Moscow—and not much happened. Many had been expecting Team Trump to sell out Ukrainian sovereignty in return for commercial deals. The risk of such an odious stitch-up now seems to
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International politics discussion covering Ukraine conflict, European response to Putin, multilateral climate and G20 meetings, and far-right movements in Europe
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We're going to return to Ukraine, which people, I hope, have listened to our pod where we went in detail into the Russia-Trump-Ukraine plan.
we're going to look at these big multilateral meetings that have been happening this week in particular COP and the G20 so climate and the G20 we're going to be looking at Russia and the far right in Europe and
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