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

I mean, it ends up possibly with Russia occupying 19% of Ukrainian territory with a line of truce, but with Ukraine definitively leaving the Russian orbit in spite of the ethnic link between the two countries.

I mean, this is massive geopolitics.

There is no reduction in Putin's original demands in relation to this war.

And he's in a hole and still digging.

So what happens?

Does he just continue?

Or I think in the end, it probably ends in some sort of line of truce and an unresolved conflict, rather like the last Cold War line of truce, which still exists between North and South Korea.

But the Ukrainians are not going to concede.

And they're nowhere near military defeat.

In fact, militarily in the last two to three months, they've been doing rather better and regaining territory.

And I think the Russians are having a rough time of it.

So there's an intransigence about the situation.

And I'm...

The thing that really concerns me, being a huge supporter of your country, is that this doesn't seem to have quite got through to the White House in terms of their apparent wish to end the war, with which I agree.

But it's only going to be ended on certain terms.

And I mean, those terms have to be to an extent coercive on Putin because otherwise he's just going to carry on.

And I think we're in a very sensitive and difficult situation at the moment.

And no one expected the Ukrainians to have fought so hard.

I don't know.

In effect, the Ukrainians on the part of Europe are conducting Europe's war.

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