It's time to bring Russia in from the cold: Rapprochement is in the West's best interests

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🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Is it in the West’s interests to bring Russia in from the cold? Or should we be on our guard against an ascendant, belligerent country on Europe’s borders? For this major debate, Intelligence Squared put together a stellar line-up. Making the case for rapprochement with Russia was Vladimir Pozner, one of Russia’s best known television journalists and a former advocate for the Soviet Union, and Domitilla Sagramoso, a leading expert on security in Russia; arguing against them were Michael Hayden, former director of both the CIA and the NSA, and Radek Sikorski, who was Poland’s foreign minister from 2007 to 2014. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.8	Hello, I'm Nick Guy. Welcome to the Emanuel Center here in London
1:07.0	for this Intelligence Square debate.
1:09.6	The motion for this debate, it's time
1:12.0	to bring Russia in from the cold
1:13.8	Rapprochement is in the West's best interests.
1:17.8	Well Russia under President Putin has become an assertive
1:21.6	interventionist power around the world.
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