The Fourcast Shorts: will there be nuclear war?

03/08/22 • 12 min

Are we heading for nuclear war with Russia? Russia has invaded Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin has told all his generals to put their entire armed forces, including nuclear team, on high alert.

But could the UK and its Western allies end up at war with Russia?

In this episode Georgina Lee from our FactCheck team explains how close, or not, the world is to a possible nuclear conflict.

Sources: BBC NEWS

But could the UK and its Western allies end up at war with Russia?

In this episode Georgina Lee from our FactCheck team explains how close, or not, the world is to a possible nuclear conflict.

Sources: BBC NEWS

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Why does Trump think Putin is smart?

Last week in sunny Orlando, Florida, a large group of Republicans got together at the Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC, to discuss what their movement needed to do next to change America.

Mr Trump, keynote speaker at the event, has described Ukraine's President Zelenskyy as brave, but repeated his admiration of Vladimir Putin, describing him as a smart, strong leader.

In today’s podcast, we look at where American conservatives stand on Russia and Putin, why some seem to admire the man who invaded Ukraine, and whether they are more concerned with enemies at home than those abroad.

Sources: NBC, Fox News, Twitter/@BenLorber8

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Is this the end of the post-Cold War era?

In a matter of days, Europe and the world has been transformed.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has upturned the post-Cold War consensus that has dominated our lives for three decades.

Is the West itself despite all this a stronger entity? Where does America lie in all of this? And what about Russia, the old enemy turned new menace today?

Emma Ashford, a senior fellow at the American foreign policy think tank, the Atlantic Council, takes Kiran through the geopolitics of then and now and tries to unravel what went wrong, as well as what could happen in the next few months.

Sources: ABC Nightline