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May 2022
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Tony Blair On Ukraine, Putin & NATO; A P...

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Tony Blair joins Fareed in London to explain how Putin’s war in Ukraine has redefined NATO as Finland and Sweden prepare to apply for membership. Then, Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, and Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of the Economist, discuss how the war in Ukraine has united and divided the world…plus put the world at risk for a global food crisis.

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