He said: “I find it slightly incredulous that you talk about not knowing what Putin wants.
“To my mind, it’s utterly obvious what Mr Putin wants and he’s been sabre rattling for the last couple of decades. The West has just let him get away with it.
“He’s annexed Crimea, he’s been trying to make inroads into the east and we’ve done absolutely nothing about it.
“The West has totally given up trying to do anything about it and this goes back to 2010 when there was a big defence review.
“We’ve stripped this country of any kind of military power.
“So we couldn’t do anything even if we wanted to and the sanctions we’re putting in place are totally meaningless unless we have some sort of armed force that can go in there and show we mean business.
“I think it’s utterly disgraceful we’ve got to this situation.”
Host Fiona Bruce responded to the man’s point about military force by asking a question of her own.
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He quipped: “But you can’t have a no-fly zone.
“A no-fly zone means British and American people shooting down Russian planes, then you’re in world war three and you have nuclear war.
“We’ve got to be sensible about this.”
