We hear about potential payments to house refugees and Putin’s next move in the war in Ukraine and we discuss Putin’s next move in the war in Ukraine. Pat was joined on the show by Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Financial Times, author of The Age of the Strongman and Hugh O’Connell, Political Correspondent with the Irish Independent.

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