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Ukraine and a return to realism

Ukraine and a return to realism

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May 12, 2025
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Owen Edwards’ brilliant four-part guest series on The Old English First Foreign Policy (part one here) was incredibly timely.

Since publishing it, the Americans have pulled the rug on Ukranian defence, making it clear that Zelenskyy ‘does not have the cards’. Starmer, along with other European leaders, has been left scrabbling to react; as I have pointed…

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