BONUS EPISODE: The panic driving Europe’s leaders to Washington with Zelenskyy
The News Agents
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🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
President Zelenksyy is on his way to Washington to meet with President Trump. He's followed by several European leaders, including Keir Starmer. Rarely is international diplomacy carried out under these circumstances. So, what would a deal look like? Why are those European leaders choosing to go to with Zelenkyy? And is this Europe's final stand against Putin?
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| 0:12.7 | What's your advice based on today when you talk to Vladimir Solensky? What's your advice to |
| 0:18.1 | make a deal? Make the deal. |
| 0:20.6 | Better make a deal, yeah. |
| 0:21.9 | That was Donald Trump talking to Sean Hannity with his advice for Volodymyr Zelensky. |
| 0:27.7 | Make a deal. |
| 0:29.2 | But what would that look like? |
| 0:31.0 | Volodymy Zelensky is on his way to Washington now, along with a phalanx of European leaders, hoping to avert another meltdown in the Oval Office. |
| 0:42.1 | It will prove to be an extraordinary meeting. Rarely, if ever, has international diplomacy been done |
| 0:49.3 | through solidarity alone. But why are those European leaders choosing to go with Zelensky? Is it just about |
| 0:57.1 | that last Oval Office meeting or something more sinister? A fear that Trump has bought Putin's |
| 1:04.0 | talking points, hook, line and sinker. Is this Europe's last stand? Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:16.0 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And it's Sunday. And we're not in the studio. |
| 1:21.7 | We're in respective homes, each trying to outdo the other on the number of books in the |
| 1:27.0 | background. I win. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah, you do win, actually. |
| 1:29.7 | And it has been remarkable to watch events unfolding. |
| 1:34.7 | I mean, yesterday, you hear that Zelensky is going to the Oval Office and you think, |
| 1:39.0 | oh my God, is this going to be a repeat of what happened last time. |
| 1:42.2 | And then one by one, other European leaders, |
| 1:45.2 | Georgia Maloney, Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, Kirstama, the head of NATO, the head of the EU, |
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