Trump’s Golden Dome | Ukraine Strikes Deep into Russia | Gaza War Ground Offensive Expansion

In this week's installment of The Geopolitical Update podcast, we discuss intensifying tit-for-tat drone warfare between Ukraine and Russia amidst a substantial prisoner swap and Donald Trump’s call with President Vladimir Putin, President Trump’s unveiling of the United States’ planned Golden Dome initiative—a $175 billion space-based missile defense system designed to intercept hypersonic, ballistic, and space-launched threats, and Israel’s expanded ground offensive in Gaza, which sparked strong criticism from Canada, the UK, and France this week in a rare joint statement issued by the three countries.

00:00 Keir Giles on this week's developments in Ukraine: drone strikes, prisoner swaps, and President Trump's call with President Putin
09:54 Tom Karako on the Golden Dome initiative and bilateral cooperation on continental defence
18:06 Thomas Juneau on the expansion of the Gaza ground offensive, the trilateral statement from Canada, France, and the UK, and the regional implications of the ongoing Gaza War

This week's guests include Keir Giles, Senior Consulting Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House; Thomas Karako, Director of the Missile Defense Project and Senior Fellow with the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); and Thomas Juneau, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

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