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Ian Proud
Ian Proud was a member of HM Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. From July 2014 to February 2019 Ian was posted to the British Embassy in Moscow. He was also Director of the Diplomatic Academy for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Anglo-American School of Moscow.
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European foreign policy appears to rest almost entirely on a desire not to offend President Trump.
A masterclass in talking points, name-drops, and wilful blindness, penned by a reporter who’s visited the front line at least once… on Zoom.
The Europeans have already died on a similar hill through their failed attempt to expropriate Russian sovereign assets held in Euroclear to support a so-called reparations loan to Ukraine.
It’s time to ditch the dreamers and get back to diplomacy
L’Unione Europea porta avanti i piani per confiscare definitivamente i beni russi
The European Union presses on with plans to seize Russian assets permanently
Zelensky’s offer to rush to early elections appears just another Kvartal 95 inspired piece of theatre.
Russians reciprocate with friendship as vigorously as they do with hostility, so the possibility of peace is not a mirage at all.
This is just a smokescreen for the economic cliff edge that Ukraine is hurtling towards
They keep trying to derail the ongoing U.S.-brokered peace talks.

