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The Debate © France 24
43:31
Issued on: 18/02/2026 - 20:09
From the show
Call it speed dating diplomacy. In Geneva, real estate magnate Steve Witkoff playing lead U-S negotiator with Iran in one room while in another acting as broker for the hard bargaining between Russia and Ukraine. We’ll ask how the Ukranians feel about it, especially when the mediator’s boss piles on fresh pressure on them. And what about the Kremlin's envoy this time, a revisionist historian who spouts the greater Russia line of Vladimir Putin?
And yet… even though Ukranians are feeling the heat during a winter left in the cold by relentless attacks on their power grid, Kyiv's also found a way to the good graces of pro-Trump tech titans, particularly with the shutting of Elon Musk’s Starlink low orbit satellites. That's enabled counter-offensives in the past week. Still, ahead of next week’s fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s bid to take Ukraine’s capital, both sides are reeling from a meat grinder of a war with lasting consequences. It’s been said that it’s politically impossible for Putin to quit now… but how viable is it to keep on fighting?
Produced by Charles Wente, Théo Vareille, Daniel Whittington and Ilayda Habip
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