Pundit says he is 'not completely er comfortable about recording a conversation about this topic' But it's difficult to avoid because it's such a huge subject. This is the cummination of a build up of van putin's forces in russia, which finally culminated in having a mass assault on ukraine. We have seen nothing like this since the second world war. The reaction from the rest of europe has been unprecedented and weare still seeing how how firmly that reaction will develop.