Does Zelensky have to go?

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump announced last night he is suspending military aid to Ukraine until Zelensky is ‘ready for peace’. Following this, the Vice President JD Vance sparked further international outrage in a Fox News interview referring to Britain as ‘some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years’. JD Vance has since come out saying that he was not referring to the UK or France in that interview - although critics can’t work out who else he could have been talking about.

Freddy Gray is joined by The Spectator’s Russia correspondent Owen Matthews to discuss whether the only way for there to be peace in Ukraine is for Zelensky to go, how far China and Russia’s relations have prospered since the war, and whether Trump will win a Nobel Peace Prize.

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0:30.5	Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.
0:39.8	It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States. We will, of course, be following the moves of the Donald and his second administration very closely. However, it won't just be politics
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1:03.1	Today we are going to be talking about what else but Donald Trump and Ukraine,
1:08.4	because following the spectacular bust-up between Doddemy Zelensky and President
1:12.6	Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday, things have not got better, I think it's fair to say.
1:19.6	Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he would be suspending all US military aid to Ukraine
1:27.1	and possibly lifting sanctions on Russia.
1:32.1	And then last night on Fox News, J.D. Vance got himself into a bit of an international
1:37.4	brouhaha.
1:38.8	The very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way
1:46.3	better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or
1:53.1	40 years. Vance has since made clear that he did not mean Britain or France when he said that,
2:00.0	although which country he actually meant is hard to decipher.
2:03.5	I'm delighted to be joined by Owen Matthews, our Russia correspondent, to discuss this story.
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