hello. thank you forjoining me for unspun world, where the bbc s experts give us their in depth thoughts about what s really going on in world affairs. vladimir putin holds his referendums that s what he calls them aboutjoining russia in four areas of ukraine. but how great is the danger that this will bring us closer to nuclear war? in the event that those territories are attacked by ukraine, we ve been warned that the nuclear doctrine applies. russia s way of fighting its war with ukraine has been pretty chaotic so far. but does that mean that vladimir putin might actually be pushed aside at some point? the youngsters, they are going to start questioning this policy and this worldview pretty soon, especially when we see the failures on the front line and more body bags arriving into the country. and kenya has a new president, a village lad who has made it to the very top. but how worried should we be about all the allegations of corruption against him? he called himself
that this will bring us closer to nuclear war? in the event that those territories are attacked by ukraine, we ve been warned that the nuclear doctrine applies. russia s way of fighting its war with ukraine has been pretty chaotic so far. but does that mean that vladimir putin might actually be pushed aside at some point? the youngsters, they are going to start questioning this policy and this worldview pretty soon, especially when we see the failures on the front line and more body bags arriving into the country. and kenya has a new president, a village lad who has made it to the very top. but how worried should we be about all the allegations of corruption against him? he called himself, styled himself as the hustler who rose from nothing. but that puts a lot of pressure mr ruto, because he has to deliver. so, russia s referendums in the four areas of ukraine that it s taken over have resulted in votes to join russia which are estimated at up to 99.2%. i suppose if you have
And reports and allegations of abuses and atrocities. back in 2020, war broke out in the north. there was a promise of a swift military operation, a law enforcement operation, as the government put it back then. but it has been nothing but swift, because two years later we are still talking about that. it resulted in a massive humanitarian crisis in which more than five million people are in need of desperate aid. are we looking at a regional civil war, do you think? for starters, ethiopia has been a sort of stabilising force in east africa and in the horn of africa for a decade or so. so any conflict here is bound to impact the region. but it s not only that eritrea is heavily involved in this fighting. eritrean forces were inside the tigray region, they were implicated in various allegations of crimes and abuses, including extrajudicial killings
Back in 2020, war broke out in the north. there was a promise of a swift military operation, a law enforcement operation, as the government put it back then. but it has been nothing but swift, because two years later we are still talking about that. it resulted in a massive humanitarian crisis in which more than five million people are in need of desperate aid. are we looking at a regional civil war, do you think? for starters, ethiopia has been a sort of stabilising force in east africa and in the horn of africa for a decade or so. so any conflict here is bound to impact the region. but it s not only that eritrea is heavily involved in this fighting. eritrean forces were inside the tigray region, they were implicated in various allegations of crimes and abuses, including extrajudicial killings
Part of a country that they don t want to be part of. the problem was always that we worried that if the kurds declared independence, baghdad would fight them. baghdad is not in a position to fight them. so the kurds are out so that means this becomes pure sunni/shia. correct. this is a regional civil war at this point. absolutely. it s syriaque. partition is not what any iraqi wanted and it will be a sad outcome but may be the de facto outcome of this. i ve seen a lot of the word stability but i ve not seen the utterance of democratic iraq. people seem to be on the stability side of things. is that fair to say? i think the partition may be the stable solution. we have to believe getting to stability could take years and hundreds of thousands of deaths. ken pollack from brookings,