We've concluded an agreement with ran with some help from russia. We now have in north korea, a country that already has nuclear weapons. This is not acceptable behaviour and therefore we cannot tolerate it. There are ways that russia can bring itself back from the cold. The crimea issue could be put to a democratic referendum. Russia could restore the control over the international border to the country that has sovereignty over ukraine. It could stop conducting provocativer military exercises,. Such as the zapad exercises, in which russia exercises the fir use of nuclear weapons.
This week, we’re going back to 2017, with our debate "It's time to bring Russia in from the cold: Rapprochement is in the West's best interests". For this major event, Intelligence Squared put together a stellar line-up. Making the case for rapprochement with Russia was Vladimir Pozner, one of Russia’s best known television journalists and a former advocate for the Soviet Union, and Domitilla Sagramoso, a leading expert on security in Russia; arguing against them were Michael Hayden, former director of both the CIA and the NSA, and Radek Sikorski, who was Poland’s foreign minister from 2007 to 2014.
The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Nik Gowing.
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