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You're listening to The Globalist, first broadcast on the 15th of August 2025 on Monocle Radio.
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Live from London, this is The Globalist with me, Emma Nelson.
A very warm welcome to today's programme.
Coming up, Putin hails Trump's energetic and sincere efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
Is this genuine admiration before their meeting in Alaska or damnation with faint praise?
We'll look ahead to a summit intended to decide the fate of Ukraine without the country's president in the room.
Also ahead, we'll turn our attention to Alaska as it steps up as host.
Alaska's champions point to the state's strategic geopolitical location.
It's the territory that makes the U.S. an Arctic nation,
and in their view, the perfect bridge between Washington and Moscow.
Also ahead in the next 60 minutes,
Bolivia's left-wing government looks on the verge of collapse as voters prepare for this weekend's elections.
We'll look at Friday's newspapers and...
It was really the classic American story in the sense that you have this founder who came from nothing,
built this business, is now handing it down to his sons.
And in the 40 years that elapsed in between, has gone through all manner of chaos.