For the past a decade or so, kremlin has focused on trying to bring ukraine back into its orbit. There are lots of people in moscow who think that reinvigorating russian imperial control over eastern europe would be a good thing for russia. The reality is that what we're talking about here is not primarily russia's security. And i think it's implausible that ave kremlin seriously feels threatened by native forces,. which, anyway, are only a tiny fraction of what they were during the pike of the cold war.
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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