Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Putin fears Nato's wrath as he faces the point of no return | Robert Fox

Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Show Notes

“If you were to get shooting Putin, if it were…if we have that in the channel or the Danish narrows, we could very quickly be in a chapter five Nato confrontation.”

Putin could quickly find himself in a sticky situation if someone “gets fed up with him”, says The Standard’s defence editor and writer for The Independent and the i Robert Fox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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