Trump puts the ball in Putin’s court
The News Agents
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The origins of a peace deal have emerged in Saudi Arabia. There’s just one problem: whilst Zelensky is offering to sign up, there’s no word from Putin. How does a 30 day ceasefire work if the aggressor isn’t on board? And why is Trump convinced that he will be?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:12.4 | Hopefully we'll take this offer now to the Russians. |
| 0:15.1 | And we hope that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace. |
| 0:17.5 | The ball is now in their court. |
| 0:19.5 | But again, the president's objective here is number one, above everything else. He wants the war to peace. The ball is now in their court. But again, the president's objective here is |
| 0:22.0 | number one, above everything else. He wants the war to end. And I think today Ukraine has taken |
| 0:26.9 | a concrete step in that regard. We hope the Russia... The process has been chaotic, the bullying |
| 0:31.7 | of Zelensky ugly, the one-sidedness of the pressure bewildering. But listening to the US Secretary of State there, Marco Rubio, |
| 0:41.3 | do you conclude that maybe, just maybe, |
| 0:46.2 | that Trump is delivering on what he promised |
| 0:49.4 | of getting some kind of peace deal for Ukraine? |
| 0:52.6 | Last night, we got the first white smoke. |
| 0:55.2 | Ukraine has agreed to a 30-day immediate ceasefire to allow for further talks. |
| 1:00.9 | What has Russia said to this? |
| 1:02.5 | Well, currently, nothing. |
| 1:05.7 | Does any of this matter unless Russia is on board? |
| 1:09.9 | And is Trump going to apply the same pressure to his friend |
| 1:13.2 | Vladimir Putin? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:19.0 | The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:22.8 | And we should be clear about what this is and what this isn't because, look, there is undoubtedly |
| 1:28.3 | a breakthrough happened in Saudi Arabia in the talks between Ukrainian officials and American |
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