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Had a really interesting conversation about Russia, the US, Europe, and the UK with Richard Johnson and Lewis Herbert. Recorded last month, airing on Cambridge 105 Radio in about an hour (and available online afterwards).

Not taking this incident seriously will be far costlier than a solid response, in the long run.

Latvia's armed forces said the Russian drone that crashed on the Baltic state's territory was an Iranian-designed Shahed equipped with explosives. themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/09/lat…

BREAKING: Foreign Secretary David Lammy announces that the UK government is going to provide £600m in support for Ukraine trib.al/Qn3HqHW 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

In last night's debate Trump claimed once again that Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine while he was president. Mike Pompeo has also repeated it. So I'm re-posting this thread on just how effective Trump was at dealing with Russia (tl;dr: he was great - for Putin).

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Western sanctions have cut supply of goods and capital, and legal and financial services, to Russia. But they have barely touched software until now. This changes in a few hours.

As one of the associate editors of Eur Jnl Int Sec, I'm delighted that this is happening. Yet another reason for you to submit your articles to us!

I don't think this slow, public choreography of decision to relax constraints on Ukraine's use of Western weapons is helpful. Just let Ukraine get on with it. ATACAMs were sent without fanfare. Russia was left to discover this by their use. Same principle applies. A public