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Can Europe's Economy Handle Russian Sanctions? | Frances Coppola

Forward Guidance

CHAPTER

The West Is Not Blameless in This Case

Francis Coontz: The West is definitely not blameless in this. But Russia invaded in 2014 after a coup that was from the Ukrainian people, but also had a lot of support from the West. In 2019, the Zalenski was elected with the landslide. So why do we think that it would be okay to do that in Ukraine? It clearly isn't. I think that it's either people deserve to have their own independence or they don't.

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