Sir Richard Dearlove

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | February 28th, 2026: Former MI6 Chief Sounds Alarm On Iran & U.S. Combat Aircraft Move In · 28 Feb 2026 podcast

So if you make a sort of comparison, because he is far more ideological, he's far more committed.

to his sheer vision of the world.

It's just not on the cards.

So I think we are heading for a crisis.

Well, I met him.

I met him with Tony Blair way back when he was first elected president.

And in effect, I think I was almost responsible for

Tony Blair, going to the opera with him in St.

Petersburg for a new production of Boris Goodenough whilst he was running his presidential campaign on the grounds he's a new leader, maybe a dialogue with him.

And for a brief period of time after 9-11, we had an interesting relationship with Moscow, with Russia.

And I had the extraordinary experience of going to Moscow to meet the head of the GIU to talk about Afghanistan.

Sergei Varnov was then Minister of Defense talking to Sergei Varnov.

And we made a big effort.

to have a different relationship with Russia in that window, that brief window.

It lasted about 18 months.

My final visit to Moscow, things were already going awry.

I mean, it's too long to explain the detail, but they were, and it was frosty cold and difficult and was an indication of what was subsequently gonna happen.

But we certainly gave Putin the chance to have a different relationship with the West.

okay, we didn't succeed, which I think is a great tragedy.

And things have now evolved to where they are, which are pretty catastrophic.

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