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Ukraine's Trump Dread: Zelensky's Kursk Gambit and the US Election

Season 1, Ep. 92

Shashank Joshi joins Tom and Helen to discuss Ukraine's recent shock incursion into Russian soil and whether there are still conditions in Western democracies to provide military and economic support for Ukraine...and would a Trump presidency spell the end for Ukraine?

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