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Listen: should the west defend Ukraine?

Is trouble in eastern Europe our problem?

July 21, 2015
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, watches the tactical training progress of the Naval Forces of Ukraine. © Mykola Lazarenko/ Pool photo via AP
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, watches the tactical training progress of the Naval Forces of Ukraine. © Mykola Lazarenko/ Pool photo via AP
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As Russia continues to aid the Ukrainian rebels by proxy, and other territories in the former Soviet Union feel increasingly under threat, should the west stand back or get further involved?

Prospect's editor Bronwen Maddox chaired a panel examining this question at the Chalke Valley History Festival last month, alongside Oxford University's Dr Peter Frankopan, former US security advisor David Zabecki, Bill Browder, the financier turned Putin whistleblower, and Dr. Peter Caddick-Adams, the military historian and defence analyst.

Listen to their wide-ranging discussion below.