i think you can actually paint a pretty rosy scenario if the ucraniu really do defeat the russians or force a withdrawal. It does seem to me that puten is not going to survive this. They've now lost over ten thousand killed, meaning if you had the wounded, that's like 30, 35 thousand casualties out of their initial invasion force. So it's a really terrible setback for any professional military officer. I don't think that the successor is going to be worse. Youyou couldn't get a better illustration of why a liberal society is better than an autocratic one than what's happened between russia and ukrane,. ight.
Following the fall of communism in 1989, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama shot to fame with his thesis about the ‘end of history’ – the idea that the entire world was set on a path towards universal liberalism. But 30 years on, liberalism is under attack from both the Right and the Left – and from Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Professor Fukuyama was joined in conversation by John Gray, the British political philosopher, who rejects the idea of a universal momentum towards liberal values and human progress. Despite the view of many that the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks the end of the post-Cold War era, Fukuyama believes that it is a wake-up call for the West to rekindle the spirit of 1989, while Gray holds that the idea that liberalism will ever triumph is a mirage. Chairing the discussion is the journalist, author and broadcaster, Helen Lewis.
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