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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

and this is the Sunday Roundup. The Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab joined Sophie Rowworth this morning

to address the continuing crisis in Ukraine. The war has not been going quite as smoothly as Vladimir Putin might have hoped,

and within the first few days, the command has been given to place Russia's nuclear deterrence forces

on high alert. Raywith asked Rabb to address this worrying development. President Putin is so

unpredictable. Do you think he could use a nuclear weapon? I think some of the rhetoric around

that has been just that.

I think he's trying to take the conversation away from the stuttering initial phase of the campaign.

Remember, conscripts going into Ukraine from Russia, very young ones, would have been told they were

peacekeepers and clearly faced resistance that they weren't expecting.

The Russian people were told the same, that this would be a

glorious invasion and retaking ancient Russian lands. That is both false, but also demonstrably

disproven that this is in Russia's interest by the impact on their economy that our sanctions

have had. But what you do always expect with Putin is that he will try and lash out then.

So I'm afraid that is part of

his playbook, which is why we need to show strategic stamina and see this through with our

international allies. We hear from President Zelensky day after day, and he is still in

Ukraine and still calling for a no-fly zone. He says NATO has given the green light to the bombing

of Ukrainian cities and villages by refusing to create that no-fly zone.

And everyone who dies will be because of NATO as well, because of NATO's weakness, because of NATO's disunity.

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