Anatole suggested that natonla ment was a fateful error, quoting george kennan. All native countries are more peaceful than almost anyone would have expected they'd have been at the end of the cold war - Anatole. The most recent poles from the respected key of institute sociology find 88 % of ucranians want independence from russia. A majority want to join nato, and that number has been increasing overtime in all regions of the country. And it's not hard to understand why ukranians think that.
As Russia amasses tens of thousands of troops on Ukraine’s northern and eastern border fears are mounting that President Putin plans to invade the country. The stakes could not be higher, and each move by both Russia and its military rivals in the West will have potentially catastrophic consequences for the country caught in the crossfire: Ukraine. Is there another option? In this programme, we debate the motion: The West Should Seek a Compromise with Russia Over Ukraine. Joining us to discuss it is Anatol Lieven, Senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC and author of Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry. We're also joined by Chris Miller, Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Chair for this debate is Larisa Brown, Defence Editor for The Times.
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