Speaking to Calum Macdonald on Times Radio Early Breakfast, Daniel analysed the Russian attack on Ukraine and Vladimir Putins nuclear threat on the West.
He said: “I hope and trust that those on both sides of the Atlantic who are in senior positions and national security positions are doing that.
“Certainly, theres been lots of war-gaming and practice to kind of identify opportunities to de-escalate away from a threshold that would be nuclear. And so people have inherited wisdom of a couple generations of trying to predict that.”
He also commented on Russias latest attack on Ukraines second largest city, Kharkiv. He said: “Kharkiv would be a city that would feel quite familiar to many people in England and many people in the United States.
“It is a modern city. It has a high-speed rail between Kyiv and Kharkiv. Its certainly nicer than a lot of the trains in the United States, certainly as modern as any trains that you would find in England.
“And I think its really horrible, horrifying to watch the footage of indiscriminate bombing on the second largest city in Ukraine.”
Listen to Daniel Baers interview in full on Times Radio.
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