What will Trump do about Russia?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As Donald Trump’s list of appointments becomes longer and more controversial, there’s one area that seems set for drastic change: defence.
The announcements come alongside Joe Biden’s decision to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles to fire into Russia, just months before Trump becomes commander in chief.
We speak to Robert Wilkie, the man in charge of preparing Trump’s defence policy. He tells us what’s happening behind the scenes, how Trump could negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, and why he’s picked a Fox New presenter as his defence secretary.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Correspondent
GUEST
- Robert Wilkie, director of defence transition
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to all the new Americasters who've joined us in the last few months. |
| 0:03.5 | More of us now, we're here than ever before, partly because there is so much going on. |
| 0:08.8 | So between now and Donald Trump's inauguration in January, we're going to be looking at who is picking for his team, what that could mean for the next four years and how the Democrats begin to regroup. |
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| 0:44.7 | We're recording this Wednesday afternoon in Britain, |
| 0:48.5 | and we're doing it at a very important, a serious time in world affairs, |
| 0:52.0 | because it's a time where the United States has allowed |
| 0:55.2 | for the first time missiles, its missiles, long-range missiles, to be fired into Russian territory. |
| 1:00.7 | The same thing is happening with British missiles. And there is a huge incoming problem for |
| 1:08.4 | the Trump administration to deal with. So it's not just the diplomacy, |
| 1:11.6 | how do they end the war? It's also what do they do about Vladimir Putin and what do they do |
| 1:16.8 | about the situation that they are going to inherit. So we have exactly the right person to talk to |
| 1:23.1 | about this. We have the man who is in charge of getting Donald Trump's defense policy set up. |
| 1:30.4 | And we're going to hear from him not only about what is happening this week, but also about |
| 1:34.3 | what the plans are for the Trump administration. Welcome to AmeriCast. |
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