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Russia and Ukraine: One Year On

Intelligence Squared

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Putin Is an Opportunist and Putin Is a Bad Actor

I think with Putin, the problem is not emotional acting, it's being a bad actor. As all opportunists are and as Hitler was and many other leads in history, is an opportunist. And you can see why he thought things would play out in a different way. He thought we were weak. It starts with all the intelligence reports from Ukraine with it. But beyond that, he looked at Europe, post-pandemic, economically stressed. No one can argue that we have had strong and stable leadership in the last three or four years. We cannot rely on the Americans always failing us out. By gosh, they have bailed us out this time around. What if Donald

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