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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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Feeding the Ukrainian dogs of war will only prolong the needless suffering for the poor innocent people caught in the crossfire.
Stop twisting history to create bogus links between Russia and Nazi Germany
Zelensky’s petulant outburst is greeted with silence in the West.
Why does Whitehall stumble from one idiotic idea to another?
The western governments are turning a blind eye once more to activity that they would never tolerate in their own countries.
More people, fewer Germans, less agency and no growth is the toxic cocktail that J D Vance has laid bare.
The war in Ukraine has prompted Eurocrats in Brussels to force a binary choice on Serbia – ‘you’re either with us or with Russia’.
In 1997, veteran U.S. diplomat George Kennan stated that ‘expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold War era’.
European and British leaders need to get behind real negotiations, Ian Proud writes.
L’Unione Europea non esisterà nel 2040 se continuerà a centralizzare i poteri a scapito degli Stati Membri sovrani.