Lionel Barber Anne Applebaum alan rusbridger If you think ukraine is forgotten what abt Afghanistan and Sudan?

Ukraine is the only country in the world facing ballistic missile attacks. It can be defended by Patriot systems unused or in storage elsewhere. This needs to happen now.

PM Kishida 🇯🇵 clear in his address to the 🇺🇸 congress: “Russia's unprovoked, unjust, and brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has entered its third year. As I often say, Ukraine of today may be East Asia of tomorrow.”

Is Ukraine “the forgotten war”? This week’s
Media Confidential podcast talks to Anne Applebaum who writes and talks eloquently about Putin, the media and Ukrainians fighting courageously while western support falters. Special edition for Speaker Johnson with me and alan rusbridger

Here Edward Luce nails it (and Speaker Johnson’s choice): America’s moment of truth on Ukraine ft.com/content/98f37c… via @ft

Abrdn executive Ptr Brnnr has complained the company is facing 'corporate bullying' because of its ridiculous name ft.com/content/2c9bb0…

My piece for Politico on Japan “hunkering down for Trump 2.0”

Seconded! Coming up on the Media Confidential podcast this week alan rusbridger and I talk to Anne Applebaum on “the forgotten war” in Ukraine
and Russian aggression
There is no better expert commentator on the frontline

While Washington sleeps, Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine cities (Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv) continue to escalate and now the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is under attack. Wake up MAGA Republicans before it is too late!

This appalling destruction cannot go on unchecked. Why are we not doing more to help Kharkiv?

Great to see all-age participation in Yoko Ono’s live wrapped-in-paper performance at Tate Modern. Check out John Lennon and Yoko on the second floor with “bed-ins for peace” film. Sixties were glorious days……

Wirecard via fugitive Austrian financier Jan Marsalek operated a shadow financial network to pay and facilitate Russian undercover operations beyond the detection of Nato security services.  Amazing revelations on top of the original FT expose!

ft.com/content/c3b500… via @ft

RIP Hella Pick, a great journalist. Always curious, never cynical, intensely competitive, she was a trailblazer who came to the UK on the Kindertransport. Incredible life theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

Lot of talk in Asia about Trump 2.0 which shows a) how much he is influencing policy now b)how people are discounting the criminal and civil cases against him c) how he’s playing on ageing Biden being beatable. Conventional wisdom wrote him off in 2016; now may be overcorrecting

The greatest miscalculation the US made was thinking it could limit the war to Ukraine by depriving Ukraine of systems of long range. It only delayed the inevitable, has lengthened the war and meant that the US has lost influence. Its made things worse on all levels