White House texts secret war plans to journalist & frontline soldiers react to Trump’s plans

Day 1,126.

Today, following the latest updates from the battlefront, we look at the extraordinary security breach that saw a journalist invited into a secret chat group for Donald Trump’s war cabinet, and then hear about the mood of Ukrainian soldiers at the front.

Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Gareth Corfield (Transport Correspondent). @GazTheJourno on X.

Verity Bowman (Foreign Correspondent). @VerityBowman on X.

Content Referenced:

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans (The Atlantic):

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

Francis’s Video Interview on Silicon Curtain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25uu4_YHgPQ&t=586s

Verity’s Telegraph Pieces:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/v/va-ve/verity-bowman/ 

Trump cabinet complained about ‘free-loading Europe’ in top secret group chat (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/24/trump-cabinet-complained-free-loading-europe-secret-chat/

Zelensky on Trump, Putin, and the Endgame in Ukraine (TIME):

https://time.com/7270880/zelensky-trump-putin-ukraine-endgame-interview/

What the Kremlin Wants in New Talks with the U.S. on Ukraine (The Moscow Times):

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/23/playing-for-time-what-the-kremlin-wants-in-new-talks-with-the-us-on-ukraine-a88445

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