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Ukraine: a view from the Baltics

Gideon talks to Kersti Kaljulaid, former president of Estonia, about the policy failures that led to the war in Ukraine. A weak response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia and Crimea gave Vladimir Putin the green light. Now the strength of Ukrainian resistance is giving the west another chance to "put its house in order".Clips: Sky News, AP More on this topic: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c14eda06-5196-478d-b4ce-edae5716f3e3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Europe’s new defence bloc: Nordics and Baltics unite in face of Russian threat</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a430b191-39c8-4b03-b3fd-8e7e948a5284" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Estonia’s PM says country would be ‘wiped from map’ under existing Nato plans</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d711c884-653d-4336-a490-b9075e5ce82f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">War in Ukraine: will the Baltics become the ‘new West Berlin’?</a>Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe. Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6c4ecab4-37fe-49ea-a7ba-02fef4ac55f8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist talks to the decision-makers and thinkers who are shaping world affairs. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.