Putin aims to reclaim Ukraine and potentially more, seeking to restore Soviet-era influence and follow in “his hero Stalin’s” footsteps, former UK Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood says. #Ukraine #Putin
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00:00So basically this coalition of the willing, as it's called, that's been meeting today in Paris,
00:04not their first meeting by any means, it sort of seems to be working rather against
00:10the efforts that are being made by the Americans, doesn't it?
00:13100%. You've got a plan A, which is the Putin-Trump idea that there will be a ceasefire
00:20and somehow we'll come to terms with that and everybody go back to where we were,
00:24and then there's a realisation from the rest of Europe that if we
00:28lent into that, if we supported that, it's simply giving Russia the time and space to
00:33regroup and do it all again, and that is unacceptable. Don't forget Putin's long-term
00:39ambition is not just to take away one-fifth of Ukraine, he wants all of it. And not only that,
00:44he's interested in more of Eastern Europe as well. He wants to rekindle that Soviet influence that
00:50his hero, Stalin, actually had. That's what we're dealing with in Europe. Donald Trump doesn't see
00:56it under those terms. He just sees the world in a sense of disorder, chaos if you like,
01:01with big beasts around the world. One of them is Russia, that has an interest in Ukraine.
01:07The other is America, that has interests in Panama, in Canada, in Greenland, for example.
01:12So each has their severe of influence, like tribes in a jungle, and you respect the other tribes,
01:18you don't go into their territory. Unfortunately for Europe, that means we're seeing America
01:23actually break away from a traditional support for European allies.