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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Suspectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls. I'm joined by James Forsyfe.

James, in terms of what's on the news agenda today, briefly, and we can return to the police and parties.

But actually, Russia is what is leading in many respects.

This trust has been in Moscow.

How did that go?

So predictably, I think, is the way of putting it,

which is Söga Labrov, the Russian foreign minister,

enjoys being kind of brutally rude to his Western guests,

and Liz Truss was no exception.

Now, I think that in some ways his rudeness is a sign that Truss held the line in these meetings.

She didn't say anything that he could exploit and turn to his purposes in the press conference saying that the UK agreed to this or that.

And I think that the Russians clearly view the UK as the most pro-Ukrainian of the three major powers in Europe.

And I think you particularly get the rough side of a tongue, especially when you consider that Boris Johnson was at NATO HQ today in Brussels this morning.

And then in Poland this afternoon where the UK is sending more troops, albeit

only 350 more troops, as a kind of sign of reassurance to Poland. And so I think we can

overinterpret some of the Russian rudeness. But I think that now the question is, what is Vladimir Putin

intending to do? I think that this scale and size of the

Russian military buildup cannot be maintained indefinitely. So I think in the next two to three weeks,

we will find out what it is. A lot of people think that there's 20 for February, which is the end of

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