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EUROPE. NO LEADER. ANATOL LIEVEN.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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EUROPE. NO LEADER. ANATOL LIEVEN.
1916 SWITZERLAND

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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world.

0:05.6

I'm John Batchez speaking with my colleague, Anatole-Levin-L Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

0:10.8

He directs the Eurasia Project at the Quincy Institute.

0:14.7

And I note that the Eurasia product includes a project includes Mr. Starrmer of Britain, Mr. Macron of France, Mr. Merritts of

0:23.7

Germany, Mr. Tusk of Poland, and all those leaders gathered in Warsaw for the night train

0:31.8

to Keefe, very romantic story, the only way in without use of the airport, and arrived to stand together with

0:41.0

Mr. Zelensky in a show of unanimity collectivity. Not necessarily NATO, not even EU. It's a

0:50.0

mixed here. You'd have to say these are those coalition of the willing to take the night train from

0:55.3

Warsaw. That's what we'll call them. All right. What is it that they want for the day after? I'm not

1:02.6

asking them for the table, but the day after. The promises of rebuilding Ukraine, those promises can be forgotten in future crises. So right now, Anatole,

1:16.6

how would you describe those men who travel to Ukraine? What is it that they can do for Ukraine?

1:23.7

What is it that they can guarantee, given that there are no certain pieces of paper

1:28.1

that pledge them more than rhetoric?

1:32.5

Well, I mean, some of them, I mean, the polls, it seems, and indeed, Bolts have said this

1:38.7

explicitly, simply want the war to go on because they believe, in my view, wrongly, that when the war is

1:46.2

over, Russia will concentrate for an attack on them. I don't think that's actually true.

1:52.4

And, of course, it's, to put it mildly, a little bit cynical to throw away more and more and more

2:00.1

Ukrainian lives for the sake of your own security.

2:03.0

But some of them undoubtedly do think that.

2:05.7

What the West Europeans want is by no means entirely clear because the peace conditions that they've

2:16.3

set forth and the European Union have set forth are

2:18.7

actually completely impossible. It's still the official position of the EU Commission that

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