Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present
The Good Fight
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The Russian Economy and the Ukraine's Counter-Offensive
There's always a temptation to think about the future in terms of projecting recent transport and yet we know that there's always surprises. We don't know what the nature of a surprise is but there's always some significant surprise so if you allow me to put you in the uncomfortable position not of making a prediction but of saying here is a significant surprise positive or negative which may occur, I'll give you two. The first is at the moment the Russian economy is holding up the Putin system is hold up the Russians are holding a great deal of territory. There is always a possibility of a non-linear development in a system like Putin's in a dictatorship it's absolutely solid until suddenly it crumbles
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