The number of russians studying abroad will be dramatically decreased and ultimately cancelled. Access to western things such as movies, books and media will be shut down. Freedom of speech which does exist in the country will be curtailed. This will lead to a resumption of the hair trigger relationship that typified the worst of the cold waryears. The difference being that russia is incomparably more powerful than north corea. Would this be in the national interests of the united states, or, for that matter, the world? I hold that it would not.
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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