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Desert Flashpoint: Crisis in the Sahel

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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What's Your Prognosis of Where We're Going?

I think it's an interesting security question that basically discourse within Europe has allowed other countries to weaponise immigrants. European political actors have become so afraid of the radical right that they let this weaponisation happen. We seem to have very short memories, you know in 2016 everyone talked about the wave of populism with Trump and then a few years later German elections,. Macron re-election, Biden election, we tell ourselves that the problem is solved and now we're perhaps feeling less sure again. So what's your sort of prognosis of where we might be going in the context of those kind of wider geo strategic changes?

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