British journalist and author Luke Harding published a book in the summer of 2026 titled Betrayal: Trump, Putinand the New Age of Conquest. Two major events prompted him to write it. The first was Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his imperialist threats to take control of Greenland or turn Canada into the 51st US state. The secondwas North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s decision to send his troops to fight in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Harding realized that the world order would be tested not only by alliances between authoritarian regimes and dictators, butalso by the harmful actions of the United States. For the book, he travelled to villages in eastern Ukraine that are under constant Russian bombardment, spoke to Greenlanders about the possibility of the island being annexed, travelledacross Korea, and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk speaks with Luke Harding about his strangest interview with North Korean prisoners ofwar, the two Zelenskys, the bribery of British politicians by former members of Ukraine’s Opposition Platform – For Life party who are accused of treason, the confrontation between Russia and the United Kingdom, and how he explains thepuzzling affection Ukrainians have for Boris Johnson.
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