This kind of tendency towards black and white mannequin good goodies versus baddies rhetoric is now popular, not just about things like the Ukraine war, but all sorts of issues. And it seems partly driven by social media and sort of desire to be on the side of the angels all the time. Potentially, well, they think they're being really virtuous by backing Ukraine to the Hill saying all the right things in support of Senesky. Actually, they're making the situation much more dangerous for both Senesky and the ordinary Ukrainians.
What the governments and media are saying in public is quite different to what they may be saying in private. Anatol Lieven, former war correspondent joins us to discuss the question of Crimea and how different the discussions in private are compared to what we hear in the public eye.
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