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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oskredminson,

and I'm joined today by James Heel and Kate Andrews. Now, foreign affairs are pretty inescapable

this week, with the readout from the meeting yesterday between Russian and American diplomats in Saudi

Arabia, and also some wild comments from Donald Trump, where he appeared to blame Ukraine

for starting the war. Let's hear the clip.

And I think it's going very well. But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years. You should have

never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would

have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land,

and no people would have been killed and no city would have been demolished,

and not one dome would have been knocked down.

But they chose not to do it that way.

And President Biden, in all fairness, he doesn't have a clue.

Kate, Donald Trump's shock and all foreign policy serving up considerably more shock than all there.

What are your thoughts?

Certainly for the last few days, Oscar.

They are rather shocking comments.

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