1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: He gets from field in France, very good morning to you, 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: Good morning mate, three bridges down, and Zelenski's having the 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: week of his life. So that would bring in the 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: supply equation. Where are we at with that? 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 2: Well, he came up with a really nasty little response 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 2: to supply, but he caused a slow supply from the 7 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 2: west when he came out and said that war doesn't 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 2: take a holiday. Now what that means, of course, Mike 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 2: is we all know most of Western Europe is on 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: holidays still very much, so we'll we for the next 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 2: couple of weeks. Now what he's come up He said 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 2: that because he says that he desperately needs longer range 13 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: weapons to try and shure up this incursion that the 14 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: Ukrainians have done into the Coursk region. What was interesting 15 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 2: one about this, Mike, was it really it seems that 16 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: there was very little coordination with Western partners on this partly, 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 2: hannilas Here is saying because clearly the Ukrainians knew they 18 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 2: had to act swiftly, quickly, and that that learned from 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 2: last year's very much heralded counter offensive, which of course 20 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 2: was unsuccessful. So Zelensky is saying to them you've got 21 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 2: to help me. Now it looks as though we're going 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 2: to have Russia on the back foot, and it may 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 2: be a way of taking the pressure off the attacks 24 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: that the Russians have been carrying out inside Ukraine, that 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: Dombas region, Zaparita. He really is sort of hoping that 26 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: this will lease off a bit. Perhaps Putin will move 27 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: some of the troops back out of Ukraine and into 28 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: that area. And of course let's not forget that also 29 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 2: a key thing that Zelensky wants. He needs to keep 30 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: his population on side. So by looking as though he's 31 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 2: calling the West to come in and help more, and 32 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: by having this so called buffer zone in place in 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 2: the east, he may be hoping that he can keep 34 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: his population on side. 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: Here's there been a tangible shift in the conversation. I mean, 36 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: we've been here a couple of times before, and that 37 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: as has the war turned. What's the vibe the. 38 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: Vibe at the moment, I'm afraid to tell you this 39 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 2: makes still too early to say. Ukraine's still struggling to 40 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 2: fend off the assaults in the east. Still the need 41 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 2: for weapons livery, But it does seem that you're too 42 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: early to say but that dreadful scene, those dreadful scenes 43 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 2: that we had remember earlier in the year, Mike, where 44 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 2: it just looked as though it was something out of 45 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 2: the First World War, the trenches, the men dying in 46 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: the trenches. That does seem to have been eased. But 47 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: of course that could all change once winter returns, when 48 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: autumn comes, it could so easily still turn. 49 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm assuming now that the Olympics arriver that 50 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: mister Macron has turned to attention to the fact that 51 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: no one's running the place. How far apart is everybody. 52 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 2: If you'd ask me this about forty eight hours ago, Mike, 53 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: I have said, yeah, you know, the left is fairly united. 54 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: The center seems to be fairly united. But just as 55 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 2: Emmanuel Macron laid out to the possibility of talks for 56 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: what he said he hoped would be a broad and 57 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: stable majority government, the far left, one of the bigger 58 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: parties in the far left, came out and decided that 59 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 2: it was perhaps time to heat the heat it all 60 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: up a bit, And they have come out and said 61 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: that if Emanuel Macron fails to recognize their candidate to 62 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: become Prime minister, they're going to launch impeachment proceedings against him, 63 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 2: saying that he has failed to recognize the results of 64 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 2: the elections. What this has done, Mike, has made that 65 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 2: far left party look like absolute ridicals because there's no 66 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 2: way this could get through parliament. She needed two thirds 67 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: majority in both houses of parliament for us to go. 68 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 2: And of course all the other smaller center left and 69 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 2: even further left parties. You know, the Communists just completely 70 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 2: disassociated themselves with this. Fanser in Samese, the party that 71 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: had won so many seats in parliament, and now it 72 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: sort of all turns round and anyone's starting to look 73 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 2: again back at the center ground in parliament, Emanuel Macron's party, 74 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 2: and they leftover the remains of the center right Republican 75 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: party that's been around and saying, well, maybe you can 76 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 2: come up with something better. 77 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: Tell you what I'm going to do. I'm gonna ring 78 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: you next Tuesday. See how you going go? 79 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 2: Well, look forward to it. 80 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: Gaspine Field, who was in France every Tuesday morning. 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