2025-03-07
22 分钟The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Defiance has many faces.
One of them will be on show tonight in Odessa, Ukraine,
when an orchestra will perform a show entitled Ode to Resistance.
And then we step back in time to March 1945 to see how the Economist was reporting on the last year of the Second World War.
The Allies were finally on the offensive in Europe and things were starting to look a little more optimistic.
But first...
Being a president of any country comes with challenges.
But one leader has had a particularly tough week.
Last Friday at the White House, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky received a verbal battering.
You're right now not in a very good position.
You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he's happy to be right about it.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump cut off his military support and intelligence aid.
The US is pausing intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
The Trump administration had already...
And though many European leaders are rallying around him.
We have to put Ukraine in a position to protect itself and to push for a lasting and just peace.
To do so in practical terms will require a huge increase in their defence spending.