Today talk to Costas Laoutides, professor of international relations at Deakin and expert in secessionist struggles in post-soviet states. Much of Putins justification for this war in Ukraine rests on the supposed cause of the Donbas separatists so we chat with Costas about the voracity of those claims; the further breakdown of multilateralism and the hypocracy of Israel’s offer to mediate the parties.
James Brennan & Mercedes Zanker.