Is Europe heading for war with Russia?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Trump has instigated peace talks with Putin. The UK, France and Germany are alarmed, but what did they expect? And in their responses are they making a war with Russia more likely, and with what consequences? Plus more on ‘disrupters vs non-disrupters’ - the silliest and most shallow framing in the history of modern politics. Subscribe to Patreon for live events, bonus podcasts including the current series ‘The Defectors’, and to get the regular podcast a day early and ad free. Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:21.4	Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are, and we have got so much to cram in in our time together.
1:30.2	As you know, one of the things we do in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative
1:34.7	is to occasionally challenge a few orthodoxies arising around us.
1:40.8	Last week, we did it over this crazy, shallow juxtaposition between disruptors and anti-disruptors,
1:50.7	as if that is a framing that works for anything.
1:54.0	I was thinking of some more examples since then, because Kirstama predictably has taken it up
1:59.7	after his political cabinet meeting,
2:02.1	things about disruptors versus anti-disruptors. The biggest disruptor we have had in recent
2:08.3	times was Liz Truss. You know, what does it mean to be in favour of disruption? I mean, it is so
2:16.8	imprecise and apolitical. It's not a guide to anything.
2:23.5	You are change makers on the basis of values and ideas and people can challenge your version of
2:30.9	change. That's the essence of democratic politics. There are disruptors all over the
2:35.6	place. And you will approve of some disruption and not of others. Kirstama and Morgan McSweeney are
2:41.9	very cautious by instinct. It would have been an act of disruption to challenge the Brexit settlement,
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