At the atlantic council. It is my pleasure to host all of you in our distinguished guest for our panel of conversation today. We pride ourselves on the relationships that we have built with russia independence and voices and Civil Society. We believe that it is our role as a non partisan organization working in a bipartisan way of washington and elsewhere and as our realizization that it is rooted for our friends and colleagues. Last year, we hosted many events that brought together washington, analyst thinkers and policymakers together with russians dependent voices. We also heard from boris daughter who spoke about her fathers assassination of the role of propaganda thats played and atmosphere of environment and hate in russia today. We are also regularly see and honored to host the event here. One of the most prominent independent thinkers of voices and russia today. This is not the first time that we have met our friends from medusa where we were speaking earlier that all of us rea
We were unprepared for russian response. We got a russian response and we were caught flat footed. Thats poor policy making. Thats what we need. Again, we need to engage russia and have a better idea of what theyre really thinking about, what their capabilities are, and then fashioning a policy that gets us where we want to get if not tomorrow over time. And its been bad for us, but also bad for ukraine because were in a situation where we made this commitment that we are likely not going to follow through on anytime soon, and at the same time ukraine has had crimea taken away, has been subject to this very brutal conflict. It hasnt worked well for either. If you would address this point because this is a very interesting point. Yeah, it might be nice. It might be even right to say if ukraine wants to be a member of nato, they can be a member of nato. If we dont have the stamina to follow through, our allies dont have the stamite farmina to fol through, isnt that getting sort of down a
We were unprepared for russian response. We got a russian response and we were caught flat footed. Thats poor policy making. Thats what we need. Again, we need to engage russia and have a better idea of what theyre really thinking about, what their capabilities are, and then fashioning a policy that gets us where we want to get if not tomorrow over time. And its been bad for us, but also bad for ukraine because were in a situation where we made this commitment that we are likely not going to follow through on anytime soon, and at the same time ukraine has had crimea taken away, has been subject to this very brutal conflict. It hasnt worked well for either. If you would address this point because this is a very interesting point. Yeah, it might be nice. It might be even right to say if ukraine wants to be a member of nato, they can be a member of nato. If we dont have the stamina to follow through, our allies dont have the stamite farmina to fol through, isnt that getting sort of down a
We were unprepared for russian response. We got a russian response and we were caught flat footed. Thats poor policy making. Thats what we need. Again, we need to engage russia and have a better idea of what theyre really thinking about, what their capabilities are, and then fashioning a policy that gets us where we want to get if not tomorrow over time. And its been bad for us, but also bad for ukraine because were in a situation where we made this commitment that we are likely not going to follow through on anytime soon, and at the same time ukraine has had crimea taken away, has been subject to this very brutal conflict. It hasnt worked well for either. If you would address this point because this is a very interesting point. Yeah, it might be nice. It might be even right to say if ukraine wants to be a member of nato, they can be a member of nato. If we dont have the stamina to follow through, our allies dont have the stamite farmina to fol through, isnt that getting sort of down a
We were unprepared for russian response. We got a russian response and we were caught flat footed. Thats poor policy making. Thats what we need. Again, we need to engage russia and have a better idea of what theyre really thinking about, what their capabilities are, and then fashioning a policy that gets us where we want to get if not tomorrow over time. And its been bad for us, but also bad for ukraine because were in a situation where we made this commitment that we are likely not going to follow through on anytime soon, and at the same time ukraine has had crimea taken away, has been subject to this very brutal conflict. It hasnt worked well for either. If you would address this point because this is a very interesting point. Yeah, it might be nice. It might be even right to say if ukraine wants to be a member of nato, they can be a member of nato. If we dont have the stamina to follow through, our allies dont have the stamite farmina to fol through, isnt that getting sort of down a