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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What's the hold up on sanctioning oligarchs?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 141 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 97

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It's three minutes after ten and it's not a rhetorical question. I want to stress that from

0:33.9

the very start. Why has nothing yet been seized or effectively frozen by the

0:39.5

British government? And it's a very, very important question. It's one of those questions where we

0:44.5

must try hard though it is to set aside partisanship or political tribalism. It's a very

0:51.1

important question because I think if we've learned anything this week and we're now

0:55.4

beginning the 10th hour of the week that we've spent together discussing Ukraine and the

1:01.8

waging of illegal war by Vladimir Putin's Russia it's a really important question because if we've

1:08.6

learned anything this week, we have learned

1:11.7

that militarily, our hands are in many ways tied. We can send aid, we can send even weapons,

1:20.7

support, help, warm words, words of encouragement. But militarily, because Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and I would

1:31.4

say equally important, because Vladimir Putin is as mad as a cut snake and in possession of an

1:37.1

enormous nuclear arsenal, which he's expressed preparedness to deploy, the allies, as I guess

1:44.0

we'd call them, are hamstrung. I hesitate to say this

1:49.9

so starkly because it was a fairly big penny to drop, wasn't it? The idea that all the

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