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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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Intrappolati tra l’incudine e il martello, i leader europei continuano a negare l’evidente realtà della situazione disastrosa in Ucraina
Caught between a rock and a hard place, European leaders continue to deny the obvious realities of the dire situation in Ukraine.
Keir Starmer’s approach appears so weak because he has been working hard to open up a more open trade and investment relationship with China.
Sanctions will not stop the war. And the longer they go on, more Ukrainians will die.
An absence of war may usher in a renewal of the feudal scramble for control and money that has characterised Ukraine’s unstable politics since 1991.
Going through the same loop each day will never bring peace to Ukraine.
Blocking plans for a new Chinese Embassy in London would set a worrying diplomatic precedent.
But security guarantees will need to be realistic and sanctions removal must form part of the plan.
It is time to embrace moderate nationalism in foreign policy
Western leaders wake up to the realisation that President Zelensky isn’t a corruption fighting democrat after all.

