Waiting For Someone To Blink – Start Your Week with Yasmeen Serhan and Alex Andreou

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is still looming. Can further diplomacy prevent war? There are reports of a summit between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden. What could it achieve? Plus, COVID restrictions are due to be ditched in England, and MPs return to Parliament after a recess. Where will their focus be? Alex Andreou is joined by Yasmeen Serhan to discuss the week ahead. “It feels like we’re waiting for someone to blink. There’s a lot of mixed narratives.” – Yasmeen Serhan “Any diplomacy is better than the alternative.” – Yasmeen Serhan “If you are serious about living with COVID, the monitoring aspect of it is key.” – Alex Andreou "Johnson has squashed the scandal sombrero by stretching out these inquiries." – Alex Andreou "The government has to focus on crises closer to home – like the weather." – Yasmeen Serhan www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Alex Andreou with Yasmeen Serhan. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Alex Rees. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	Reading the ruins I have with me Yasmin Sir Han. Morning Yasmin.
1:21.0	Good morning, Alex.
1:22.0	Yasmin, we have to start with the latest around
1:26.0	the Ukraine crisis. Language from Washington now seems resigned to a Russian
1:31.5	invasion. It's being presented very much as something that's already
1:36.5	been decided and that if we manage to avert it will be nothing short of a miracle.
1:44.0	But every expert I've seen talk on this says that Putin has had big concessions by threatening
1:51.6	action and that escalating the conflict has only
1:54.2	downsides for him. So why are we still heading towards escalation?
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