emeritus professor history the professor of history at the university college cork, professor geoffrey robertsuff, geoffrey. thank you very much. my way. you've been sitting line for a little sitting on the line for a little while, so should send. tanks while, so should we send. tanks to ukraine? but i don't much question is there is no we shouldn't what we should be doing we should doing whatever we can to actually seek a ceasefire and some kind of peace settlement . you know , it hadn't settlement. you know, it hadn't been for western military , for been for western military, for ukraine. this war would have been over months ago and hundreds of thousands of people's lives would would have been saved. i think you have to place this british in the context of a decision by the western governments , the western governments, the americans, the germans, french are also saying they're going to send tanks and armoured cars to ukraine now i don't know whether the brits will be the americans and germans to it and the challenge is will arrive in ukraine before that has arrived too. but what i do know i

emeritus professor history the professor of history at the university college cork, professor geoffrey robertsuff, geoffrey. thank you very much. my way. you've been sitting line for a little sitting on the line for a little while, so should send. tanks while, so should we send. tanks to ukraine? but i don't much question is there is no we shouldn't what we should be doing we should doing whatever we can to actually seek a ceasefire and some kind of peace settlement . you know , it hadn't settlement. you know, it hadn't been for western military , for been for western military, for ukraine. this war would have been over months ago and hundreds of thousands of people's lives would would have been saved. i think you have to place this british in the context of a decision by the western governments , the western governments, the americans, the germans, french are also saying they're going to send tanks and armoured cars to ukraine now i don't know whether the brits will be the americans and germans to it and the challenge is will arrive in ukraine before that has arrived too. but what i do know i

thank you so much for joining us. geoffrey roberts, in cork, let me start with you as we approached 1st anniversary of the ukraine war we've seen massive western military aid to keep is the arming of ukraine by the wes, bringing us ever closer to a wider international war out western countries. not effectively directly involved in this conflict will certainly directly involved in the context of supplying military to supplying intelligence to train ukrainian troops. that might be special forces in both direct and complex. yeah, and your current war is already an international conflict on the west involved and the slightest step is, is another escalator quite clearly, but largely about it's not so much the actual practical proposals or practical policy has been decided. it doesn't work so much because i thought the oldest new equipment has been promised will actually reach about to build the time and in sufficient quantities to actually make a significant difference. the city situation, what does worry about is all the talk that surrounding the supplies and the told us representing them a

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