The Edition: is Putin winning?
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Is Putin winning?
In his cover piece for the magazine, historian and author Peter Frankopan says that Russia is reshaping the world in its favour by cultivating an anti-Western alliance of nations. He is joined by Ukrainian journalist – and author of The Spectator's Ukraine In Focus newsletter – Svitlana Morenets, to discuss whether this could tip the balance of the war (01:08).
Also this week:
The Spectator's assistant online foreign editor Max Jeffery writes a letter from Abu Dhabi, after he visited the International Defence Exhibition. He is joined by author and former member of the ANC Andrew Feinstein, to uncover the covert world of the international arms trade and how governments seek to conceal it (17:52).
And finally:
Ysenda Maxtone Graham searches for the cheapest flat in Greater London in The Spectator this week. She is joined by The Spectator's newsletter editor Hannah Tomes, to investigate whether renting may be the better option for generation rent (29:33).
Hosted by William Moore.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:27.3 | Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:35.6 | On this week's episode, I'll be asking whether Putin's anti-Western alliance is gaining support, |
| 0:41.5 | examining the international arms trade, and looking for the cheapest flat in Greater London. |
| 0:47.4 | First up, is Putin winning? |
| 0:50.1 | In his cover piece for the magazine, Peter Frankapan says that Russia is reshaping the world |
| 0:54.8 | order in its favour by cultivating an anti-Western alliance of nations. |
| 0:59.9 | He joins me now, along with Ukrainian journalist and author of the spectators Ukraine-in-Focus |
| 1:05.0 | newsletter, Svetlana Mornitsk. |
| 1:08.2 | Peter, how has Putin attempted to form this anti-Western alliance and how successful |
| 1:15.2 | has he been? Well, he's been doing it for 20 years. I mean, the context of the war and invasion |
| 1:21.9 | of Ukraine obviously brings it into sharper image and to greater accuracy, but the old-school Russian diplomacy of cultivating |
| 1:30.9 | friends and elites in other parts of the world has been a consistent part of, well, I would call it |
| 1:36.8 | Russian foreign policy, but I suppose it's also Putin's in a circle foreign policy of trying to |
| 1:41.2 | find people that you can lean on, influence and disrupt as necessary. I mean, |
| 1:47.0 | we saw that with the Brexit vote and the role that Russians played there and intelligence |
| 1:52.8 | agencies, all the noise and smoke around the Trump presidential election in a way, what was |
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