Does Putin think he's about to win the war?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Vladimir Putin’s “Results of the Year “ was a marathon televised chat show where for 4+ hours he answered none of the questions the Russian public desperately wished they could ask.
“When will the war end? When are our soldiers coming home? Are you as ill as the rumours suggest? Why is the Russia on TV not the real Russia?"
Today we ask if Putin’s buoyant mood suggests he thinks he’s about to win the Ukraine war.
We talk to those from the Bush and Obama administration who know all about Putin's methods well and ask if América is going to give up on Ukraine.
Later we discuss disgraced Scott Benton - the Blackpool South MP who could be out of a job … cue *another* by-election..
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | When I came back from my run this morning, Vladimir Putin was doing a call-in show to the nation, |
| 0:18.7 | what they call results of the year with Vladimir Putin on all the major |
| 0:23.1 | Russian TV channels. When we started recording, it was still going on. It is a marathon. It is all |
| 0:32.1 | dominant. And it comes from a man who's sounding like he's got a lot to talk about to the public. |
| 0:38.7 | I'd say, they're not going to make. I'd like, I'd like to be able to say that the translation of |
| 0:52.8 | that is, I've made a terrible mistake. I should never have invaded Ukraine, and I'm really sorry for all the chaos that I've caused. |
| 0:59.6 | Of course, that's not what he said. He said, peace will come when we achieve our goals, and those goals have not changed, which is the denartification and demilitarization of Ukraine. |
| 1:10.7 | This was Vladimir Putin feeling confident about the future. |
| 1:16.1 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:20.9 | The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:24.5 | And as you said in the introduction, it was a marathon where... It is. |
| 1:30.1 | Is it still going on? I think so. Is it still going on 18 hours later? |
| 1:33.6 | Right. I mean, I think the length is kind of important because this was an event that was cancelled last year off the invasion of Ukraine. |
| 1:40.7 | And things were going badly. Right. And he thinks that it's worth coming back now and doing it |
| 1:46.4 | at length. And this is not commercial TV, right? It's not kind of what do people want to watch |
| 1:51.5 | in the daytime in Russia. This is the president of what is essentially a police state in the middle |
| 1:58.9 | of a war that is illegal. It is an invasion, telling the people what he wants |
| 2:06.0 | them to hear, end of. And what he is telling them is that it's all going jolly well without |
| 2:12.2 | talking about the casualties. And I just think it is worth underlining. And this is according to an American |
| 2:18.9 | intelligence report, which has been leaked, which suggests that so far, the death and casualties |
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