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Dec 2024
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229. How Assad's fall reshapes the Ukrai...

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With the shock waves of the fall of Bashir al Assad still reverberating Saul and Patrick look

at the way this profoundly important event has reshaped the Ukraine conflict and the global order generally.

They also look at the battlefield and try to get a feel for how much trouble Ukraine might be in, and investigate the latest twist in relations between Zelensky and Trump.


If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - battlegroundukraine@gmail.com

Producer: James Hodgson

Twitter: @PodBattleground

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