There's a growing body of opinion that sanctions against putin are doing nothing to alter his policy and doing serious damage to the west. So if wewre doing this again, would you've done s actions any differently or is it just a matter of being patient and realistic? I think it's somein of being real stic in excepting that they don't always work well and very quickly, is a very important point. When iwa myself was in government, we werealways tring to argue about chan we do something different, not just sanctions all the time. It's just that this is an instrument that we have at our disposal,. A it tends to play to our
We welcome back Fiona Hill, the foreign affairs and national security expert, to discuss Putin, foreign policy, and what could lie ahead for the war in Ukraine. Hill has been an advisor to three US Presidents and is former Senior Director for Europe and Russia at the United States National Security Council. She is author of books including Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, and There is Nothing For You Here, which she joined us to discuss earlier in 2022. She returns to give us the latest on the ongoing war and assess what Vladimir Putin's next move might be, joined in conversation by Edward Lucas, the writer, author and European and transatlantic security specialist.
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