GUEST: Annette Bohr – Associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House.
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The international response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is scaling up, with the expected provisions of ATACMS and F16s, but remains inadequate to the task of achieving a full victory and often lags dangerously behind requirements, which causes the war to be more protracted, resulting in a greater loss of life on the Ukrainian side. Russia poses a serious threat to the rules-based international order, but is the West’s response insufficiently robust in defence of the values it espouses? A recent Chatham House report rang alarm bells and recommended that Western military support to Kyiv should be redoubled before it is too late.

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SPEAKER:
Annette Bohr is an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. She has more than 30 years of professional experience as an analyst of Eurasian politics and energy, specializing in the domestic and foreign policies of the post-Soviet Central Asian states as well as Russia’s relations with China. Her research has a particular focus on governance and regime change in authoritarian states, comparative regionalism, and the geopolitics of energy. Annette is the author or co-author of a number of publications, including the Chatham House reports and research papers and prepares briefings and reports on political risk and engagement strategies in Eurasia for international financial institutions, UK, US and Canadian government departments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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BOOKS:
Turkmenistan: Power, Politics and Petro-Authoritarianism (2016)
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SUMMARY:
Ukraine continues to fight and incrementally liberate its occupied territories from the Russian invaders. At the same time its Western backers debate the war’s likely endgame and its aftermath. The international response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine remains inadequate to the task of achieving a full victory and often lags dangerously behind requirements, which causes the war to be more protracted, resulting in a greater loss of life on the Ukrainian side. Is the West’s response insufficiently robust in defence of the values it espouses? A recent Chatham House report rang alarm bells and recommended that Western military support to Kyiv be redoubled before it’s too late.
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aUUWOQUMOo