Sir Richard Dearlove
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197 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 28 Feb
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Catastrophic for Russia and very, very difficult for global security.
Ice cold, almost inhuman.
and very much wedded to a vision of Russian history, which is intransigent and very out of date.
I mean, what I mean by that, you know, revival of a Russia which no longer exists and which no longer is going to exist.
I mean, what I find extraordinary about the war in Ukraine is actually it's a civil war.
It's not a European war.
I think Kyiv is old Rus'.
It's a fundamental part of Russia.
What I mean by that is I'm not echoing Putin's interpretation of Russian history, but the identity of the two countries is very, very close.
And I think that's why the war is so vicious, because if...
Moscow loses Kiev to the West and it's always been a hinge between East and West.
This is a fundamental crisis for Russian identity.
So, in a way, you can understand
why Russia has conducted this war.
But on the other hand, the movement of swinging towards the EU and towards NATO, which is effectively what's happened, is a geopolitical change of huge historic significance.
And it's not going to swing back the other way.
I mean, we now have a Ukrainian army of nearly a million holding off
Russia, which has now been fighting in Ukraine longer than it fought the Nazis in World War II with casualties and deaths well above the million mark.
And there's no way that Ukraine are going to be defeated.
Where does this actually end up?
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