contributors
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.
all articles
If London really wants to sharpen up its armed forces, it should, as Donald Trump has done, create a DOGE like body.
Now that Zelensky has been battered by Trump and abandoned by Starmer, he can fall back of Europe’s leading diplomat, Kaja Kallas. God help us all.
President Trump has advanced a new policy proposition that engagement and dialogue is vital if we are to bring an end to the fighting.
President Trump, not held back by dissenters in his own party, appears strongly placed to agree a deal with President Putin.
If foreign policy is human, then war in Ukraine killed the prodigal child of Biden and many European leaders.
In a dystopian moral inversion of the rules based international order, life, now, is more terrifying than death.
La chiusura degli gasdotti russi come punizione per la guerra in Ucraina sta avendo l’effetto opposto.
Mothballing Russian pipelines as putative punishment for the war in Ukraine is having the opposite effect.
Zelensky only remains in power with the support of western nations that prop up his exorbitant and unwinnable war.
Zelensky wants to provoke Russia into a retaliatory strike against NATO, Ian Proud writes.