How to win the war and not lose the peace❓
Thanks to all those who joined us yesterday to answer this fundamental question.
Below are the main thoughts from our debate delivered by outstanding experts🧶1/14:
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@ARVershbow: #Putin will not readily abandon his broader revisionist aims. #Ukraine is Ground Zero in existential war against the West. A winding down of the military conflict is unlikely to reduce Russia’s efforts to control Ukraine by other means or to dominate its neighbors.
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Information warfare, covert action, sabotage, energy blackmail, counter-sanctions, support for pro-Russian separatists and other hybrid attacks will all remain active parts of the Russian toolkit against its neighbors and the West. 3/14
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@camille_grand: #Ukraine's aspirations to join #NATO has been strengthened, both by the clear majority of the people and the government. Putin assumes UA is already a member of NATO. There are many formats to support Ukraine on the path to NATO. 4/14
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Žaneta Ozoliņa: Russia's hybrid war against the West won't stop. There are hundreds of thousands of Russians within our borders. We do not have any signals that most of them oppose Putin. We need to find out who are they, what they think and plan. 5/14
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@robdewijk: Every effort should be met to give Ukraine all the weapons it needs. The amount of ammunition required exceeds production in the West. We need investment, long term contracts. We need to put our defence industrial base in order.
We need it also to defend ourselves
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We can learn a lot from Ukraine as well. We must have our plans ready for the months to come, we need to use Russian weaknesses, which are widely exposed right now. 7/14
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We cannot continue with business as usual. Power comes with costs and responsibilities. Hard power is fundamental for deterrence and defense. 9/14
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Time after time we had wake up calls and time after time we ignored them. This war is about fundamental change of the word’s security order.
We have the wealth, people, power and technology. We need leadership, as in 1940s.
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@Orysiaua: There are many easy & tempting but dangerous solutions for how to end the war. There is no way for Putin to break the will of Ukrainians. The core of the Ukrainian nation is preserved. But Putin is not giving up. He is starting plan B, the war we are not prepared for.
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Any territorial concessions are not a solution. Crimea in Russian hands is a danger not only for the Black Sea. We need to end any green zones on the map of Europe. We know from Ukraine, Moldova or South Caucasus that they are like cancer, used by Russia to subjugate nations.
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We need a strong signal from #NATOVilniusSummit: Ukraine will become a member of NATO when the proper security situation permits & Allies will provide all tools for it to happen asap. 13/14
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There is no point of return. Russians already crossed the Rubicon.
Support of Ukraine is not charity. It is an investment in global security.
Ukraine’s recovery will be the biggest investment project in Europe. 14/14
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@FrencLindley: We must continue with #dynamic support of #Ukraine going forward. #Dynamic containment of Russia, #dynamic rebuilding, #dynamic alignment. We cannot afford to avoid our responsibilities. We can no longer delude ourselves that somehow words matter more than power.
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