November 21, 2024 • 5 mins
European allies of Ukraine are bracing for a response from Russia.
Ukraine has fired US, and now UK-made missiles into Russian territory.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says all eyes are on Putin's possible response.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Beninda Brady, our UK correspondent, is with us evening.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inda, Hey, heaven right, speaking again, what.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Do you think Putin does now?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Things going to be very interesting there obviously will be
something and the big fear here is that he may
use a nuclear weapon. Now I don't think he's that stupid.
I actually spent some time last week interviewing the Russian
ambassador to the UK, and you've got to really sit
down and think after you speak to these people. And
the overriding sentiment I got from half an hour of
(00:31):
direct questioning with this guy is they want peace. He
said it about four times. Now when you look at
what they want, yes, okay, you can say you want piece.
He also wants a rather large piece of Ukraine. Now,
what he was saying to me was that they would
like to talk peace, but at the current boundaries, so
basically everyone keeps the land they have as of today,
(00:52):
which would mean monumentally gains for the Russians. They'd get
basically the whole of don Yetsk, get the whole of
lu Hans that keep crying. Yeah, I could see Putin
being very happy with that. But the Ukrainians are not
going to give an inch. But in terms of what
he does next. I think we watch and wait, and
it's a really interesting interview in the newspapers today here
(01:14):
from the Chief of the Defense Staff, Sir Tony Radikin,
and he's calling on people to get resilient and get
ready for war. And earlier in the week we had
Sweden telling its citizens to prepare for war. So I think,
I don't know. I don't want to be scared mungery,
but these are very fraud times in Europe.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But into what are the chances that this is propaganda
and that it's designed knowing that the Russians will read it.
It's designed to send the message that there is resolve.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
There is resolve. But I think if you look in
any kind of critical way of the UK defense forces
where they are numerically, they haven't been this small for
half a century. The money is not there. Britain can't
defend itself. They're pulling projects left, stright and center on
the military such side of things, just to save a
(02:04):
few hundred million here and there. Everything is going into
getting the economy moving and the health service to stop
it from crumbling completely. So there's no great appetite to
pump money into the military, and I think we're in
a very kind of dangerous time as to what he
does next. But he's not stupid yet. We know he's
we know he's extremely dangerous. He's far from stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So I was reading the Telegraph earlier today and the
Defense Affair, the Defense and Foreign Affairs editor there was
making the case that now that Ukraine can use these
long range missiles from the US and the UK, it
actually means there is a chance for the first time
in quite a while for Ukraine to win. Do you
buy that?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No, absolutely not. It's a frozen stalemate. They do need
to see this sounds as unpalatable as this sounds to
everyone this war. Russia won't win it, Ukraine won't win it.
It is completely a frozen stalemate. And you know, I
said to the Russian ambassador the other day when I
saw him, you know your special operation that was going
(03:08):
to take three days, Well, we're now looking down the
barrel of a three year anniversary. And of course they
pick up and they deflect, and they don't want to
answer questions or address time scales. But I think, in
all honesty, what we're likely to see, I think at
some point in early next year peace talks and then
the Russians will say that Ukraine can never join NATO,
(03:29):
but had a push, they might be allowed into the
European Union. And by the way, we're keeping every inch
of land we've stolen from you since February twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Hey, by the way, Jeremy Clark's ambastard, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, big time. So look he's done a lot of good.
And I come from a farming family in Ireland, my
grandparents and their grandparents and the whole way back where
dairy farmers in North County Longford. I've seen firsthand how
difficult it is to farm, how it takes over your life.
And I think in the UK Clarkson has done extraordinary
(04:01):
work showing ordinary people who are not farmers, what goes
on on a farm, how expensive everything is. You never
get a break, you're tied to the land. But a
bit of an own goal. This week he headed off
to Westminster to protest against inheritance tax changes brought in
by Keir Starmer. And it only affects the four percent
of the richest farms in the UK, so you've got
(04:24):
to be inheriting north of six million en z dollars
before you pay a cent of this new tax. It's
not going to affect your average working class farmers at all.
And Clarkson was asked the question, isn't it true that
you only bought your farm to avoid paying inheritance tax?
And Clarkson rounded on the reporter berated her and she
(04:44):
was quoting his words back to him. From twenty ten,
he gave an interview to the Sunday Time saying it
was a great way of avoiding inheritance tax to buy farmland.
And he's not the only one. There's a lot of
very very well healed people in the UK who have
invested in a novel money in farmland, and they're not farmers.
Andrew Lloyd Weber, you know, great at making. Yeah, I'm
(05:08):
not sure he'd know how to get John Deere out
of second gear. But there we are.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Into thanks very much appreciated Into Brady, UK Correspondent eight.
What it did to say the stale the war is
at a stalemate. I'm gonna have to sit down and negotiate.
And whose policy does that sound like?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
Beninda Brady, our UK correspondent, is with us evening.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inda, Hey, heaven right, speaking again, what.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Do you think Putin does now?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Things going to be very interesting there obviously will be
something and the big fear here is that he may
use a nuclear weapon. Now I don't think he's that stupid.
I actually spent some time last week interviewing the Russian
ambassador to the UK, and you've got to really sit
down and think after you speak to these people. And
the overriding sentiment I got from half an hour of
(00:31):
direct questioning with this guy is they want peace. He
said it about four times. Now when you look at
what they want, yes, okay, you can say you want piece.
He also wants a rather large piece of Ukraine. Now,
what he was saying to me was that they would
like to talk peace, but at the current boundaries, so
basically everyone keeps the land they have as of today,
(00:52):
which would mean monumentally gains for the Russians. They'd get
basically the whole of don Yetsk, get the whole of
lu Hans that keep crying. Yeah, I could see Putin
being very happy with that. But the Ukrainians are not
going to give an inch. But in terms of what
he does next. I think we watch and wait, and
it's a really interesting interview in the newspapers today here
(01:14):
from the Chief of the Defense Staff, Sir Tony Radikin,
and he's calling on people to get resilient and get
ready for war. And earlier in the week we had
Sweden telling its citizens to prepare for war. So I think,
I don't know. I don't want to be scared mungery,
but these are very fraud times in Europe.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But into what are the chances that this is propaganda
and that it's designed knowing that the Russians will read it.
It's designed to send the message that there is resolve.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
There is resolve. But I think if you look in
any kind of critical way of the UK defense forces
where they are numerically, they haven't been this small for
half a century. The money is not there. Britain can't
defend itself. They're pulling projects left, stright and center on
the military such side of things, just to save a
(02:04):
few hundred million here and there. Everything is going into
getting the economy moving and the health service to stop
it from crumbling completely. So there's no great appetite to
pump money into the military, and I think we're in
a very kind of dangerous time as to what he
does next. But he's not stupid yet. We know he's
we know he's extremely dangerous. He's far from stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So I was reading the Telegraph earlier today and the
Defense Affair, the Defense and Foreign Affairs editor there was
making the case that now that Ukraine can use these
long range missiles from the US and the UK, it
actually means there is a chance for the first time
in quite a while for Ukraine to win. Do you
buy that?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No, absolutely not. It's a frozen stalemate. They do need
to see this sounds as unpalatable as this sounds to
everyone this war. Russia won't win it, Ukraine won't win it.
It is completely a frozen stalemate. And you know, I
said to the Russian ambassador the other day when I
saw him, you know your special operation that was going
(03:08):
to take three days, Well, we're now looking down the
barrel of a three year anniversary. And of course they
pick up and they deflect, and they don't want to
answer questions or address time scales. But I think, in
all honesty, what we're likely to see, I think at
some point in early next year peace talks and then
the Russians will say that Ukraine can never join NATO,
(03:29):
but had a push, they might be allowed into the
European Union. And by the way, we're keeping every inch
of land we've stolen from you since February twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Hey, by the way, Jeremy Clark's ambastard, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, big time. So look he's done a lot of good.
And I come from a farming family in Ireland, my
grandparents and their grandparents and the whole way back where
dairy farmers in North County Longford. I've seen firsthand how
difficult it is to farm, how it takes over your life.
And I think in the UK Clarkson has done extraordinary
(04:01):
work showing ordinary people who are not farmers, what goes
on on a farm, how expensive everything is. You never
get a break, you're tied to the land. But a
bit of an own goal. This week he headed off
to Westminster to protest against inheritance tax changes brought in
by Keir Starmer. And it only affects the four percent
of the richest farms in the UK, so you've got
(04:24):
to be inheriting north of six million en z dollars
before you pay a cent of this new tax. It's
not going to affect your average working class farmers at all.
And Clarkson was asked the question, isn't it true that
you only bought your farm to avoid paying inheritance tax?
And Clarkson rounded on the reporter berated her and she
(04:44):
was quoting his words back to him. From twenty ten,
he gave an interview to the Sunday Time saying it
was a great way of avoiding inheritance tax to buy farmland.
And he's not the only one. There's a lot of
very very well healed people in the UK who have
invested in a novel money in farmland, and they're not farmers.
Andrew Lloyd Weber, you know, great at making. Yeah, I'm
(05:08):
not sure he'd know how to get John Deere out
of second gear. But there we are.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Into thanks very much appreciated Into Brady, UK Correspondent eight.
What it did to say the stale the war is
at a stalemate. I'm gonna have to sit down and negotiate.
And whose policy does that sound like?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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