00:00And what are your expectations of Friday's summit in Anchorage?
00:04What do you think is going to be achieved?
00:06A big question. I mean, never have been preparations from my perspective for a bilateral summit been so chaotic.
00:13I mean, the White House admitted that the logistics, the agenda, even the attendees are still being confirmed.
00:20And this isn't quality statecraft. And Putin knows it.
00:24And lots has been left to chance. And it all plays into the hands of the Russian leader.
00:31There were arrest warrants out that hang over him for his crimes in Ukraine.
00:36And now he's being courted by the international community, by America, to discuss a peace deal that neither Ukraine has actually agreed on.
00:46And America, I don't think, will help enforce.
00:49So it's not surprising that European leaders met today in an emergency session to raise these concerns, these objections,
00:58concerned about, I think, the naivety of Trump in rewarding Putin, not just with a summit,
01:03with being treated as an equal on the international stage, but potentially walking away with possibly one fifth of Ukraine.
01:11And I think the worry here is that it completely ignores the wider geopolitics here.
01:18The very real threat that Russia is increasingly backed by China poses a wider European security threat.
01:26Donald Trump seems to miss that.
01:28And if I could just say, you know, putting this all together, reading between the lines,
01:33you know, the noises from the Oval Office suggest that actually this summit is almost set to fail.
01:38And this will allow Trump to claim he's offered a deal, but neither Ukraine and Russia were interested.
01:46So he can say, well, I did my part, but now I'm going to walk away and I don't really care for Ukraine.
01:52I'm not going to bother giving them any more support.
01:54That, of course, means that Europe's left to pick up the pieces and we're left in more increasingly dangerous times.
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