a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
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Question but the blowback he s now getting this week is really extraordinary. - people in his own military- are standing up and questioning him and it s starting to l unleash more and more. that s when you start to feel like maybe he is not - his iron grip is not so solid. the problem is as all military strategists have said give your enemy an exit. he has no exit strategy. i can t see what he can do other than utterly humiliating himself. i can t see a way out. it was fascinating, too, joe biden almost saying that in public. saying they were trying to work out what would be the exit strategy. the ukrainian will not give up territory afterj what they ve gone through. i think you re right i what are they giving? it s utter humiliation. but right now, he s being i humiliated and the evidence suggests that the troops i are ill trained, ill equipped and demoralised. you can t win a war, no matter how many more forced conscripts you throw at it.