If we persist in our ignorance, we diminish ourselves and can blame no one else.

Why Ukraine matters

by Neil Barnett

Research fellow and security analyst Neil Barnett outlines the importance of the West defending its values in Eastern Europe and of not appeasing Putin, in an article on the CPS website.

“What is happening in Ukraine may well be a ‘quarrel in a far away country, between people of whom we know nothing.’ If we persist in our ignorance, we diminish ourselves and can blame no one else. Putin believes the west is so weak, decandent and demoralised that it will buckle before Russia does; the West must show that this is not so.”

Read more here.www.cps.org.uk