Ending war. Making peace. Can Trump go it alone with Putin?
High-level, face-to-face talks between the US and Russia, but Ukraine was not invited. Has the past week been the bleakest in Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain?
Three years ago tomorrow, before dawn broke, Russia began its full scale invasion of its sovereign neighbour, Ukraine.
On Tuesday, US and Russian officials held their first high-level, face-to-face talks since the war started but Ukraine was not invited, prompting fears in Kyiv that the country invaded by Russia was being sidelined. At the same time as the meeting in the Saudi Arabian capital, the US administration was letting the EU know that it could no longer rely on the US to help defend it.
Has the past week been the bleakest in Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain?
Dr Alexander Titov (lecturer in Modern European History at Queen鈥檚 University, Belfast), Cal Thomas (commentator and former Fox News pundit) and Catherine Clinton (Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas) joined Audrey Carville to discuss this dramatic and rapid change in the world order, and ask if there鈥檚 any period in history that can guide us to help build peace at this time.
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