John Henley
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164 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6 Jul
John Henley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think that's the key thing.
Zelensky is playing it really quite cleverly.
I think I mean, he's massaging Trump's ego as as hard as he can.
Trump said he had these good talks.
Zelensky, in turn, has said, you know, only Trump can do it or maybe only Trump can solve this problem.
You know, and it's clear that, you know, Zelensky also desperately wants permission, essentially, to manufacture Patriot missiles in Ukraine.
So he's keen to get that out of Trump.
Trump is, you know, we've moved on clearly from that extraordinary blow up that we all remember in the White House when J.D.
Vance and Trump essentially insulted Zelensky in front of everybody.
Well, yeah, we've now moved on to a, you know, a much more transactional kind of relationship.
And as regards Putin, you know, Trump has long trumpeted his kind of special relationship with Putin and boasted that he's capable of solving the situation and stopping the war, essentially, you know, with a single phone call, which clearly isn't true.
But he did acknowledge today that...
at the G7 summit, you know, that there is an awful lot of kind of animosity, at least between Zelensky and Putin, which is progress from Trump.
And as you say, he said, you know, pushing Moscow to get a deal done.
And I think, you know, the crucial thing in that is that it kind of acknowledges that he is expecting concessions from Putin as well.
In order to make a deal, he's clearly demanding that Putin make some concessions.
That's a step in the right direction, and that would be welcomed by European leaders.
Well, it clearly will be motivating him for the simple reason that, as you say, this U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, as it's called, it gives basically 50% of all future resources.
licensing revenue from the extraction of, yes, of critical minerals, of lithium, titanium, gas, energy, gas, et cetera, in Ukraine.
The whole package of that is estimated to be worth something like $14 trillion.
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