Clarissa Ward

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GZERO World with Ian Bremmer · War and Peace in 2025, with Clarissa Ward and Comfort Ero · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

And we can do a good job of working out what's happening on the ground from the outside, but to be clear, there is absolutely no replacement for being there.

And I'm not just even talking about fact-checking and trying to understand the kind of anatomy of any given story.

I'm also talking about the sights, the smells, the feels, the human connections, the small moments on camera that capture a much larger theme.

I mean, I obviously work in a visual medium.

So to be outside and relegated to using what we can cobble together and having some people on the ground who can film some elements who, again, to be clear,

are risking their lives and doing extraordinarily courageous work every day.

But it just doesn't allow for us, I don't believe, to fully convey to our audiences, who are already feeling kind of anxious and overwhelmed because of how hotly politicized this conflict has become, to adequately convey to them the realities.

You know, what's extraordinary in Ukraine is that

Again, because of the nature of the warfare, it's very difficult now to get to the actual front lines because the front lines effectively are being manned by drones at this stage.

And a few very brave souls who are out there who will go in the dead of night, jump into a trench.

operate their drones and then jump out again when they have an opening.

And so it looks very different to any war that I have ever covered.

And it is dangerous in a way that no other war I have covered is because

Traditionally, you might have a moment to, okay, we hear shelling from coming from over there.

We know the pattern of this.

Are they bracketing if we move our location?

And you can plan accordingly.

And you know that you have maybe a window of some time and there are kind of rhythms to a war that you learn to observe.

In Ukraine, with these drones, you might have a few seconds and not a few minutes.

So the whole nature of warfare has completely changed fundamentally and probably for good with this conflict.

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