quite, thanks for that carl. tamuz, ijust want to come back to you, do you want to comment on what you heard our panel say about this? i want to be an optimist. you want to be an optimist, we like that here. let me just get a couple of comments from our audience here on what they have heard our panel say today. anybody want to make a comment? russia became a successor state of the soviet union, they took over their seat in the security council | but did they change? right, thank you very much. another comment please from our audience? the proposal to include ukraine as a nato plus member- will give the possibility to the usa to foster and enlarge - the american arms sales to ukraine. that looks to me as a great adventure commercial- possibility for the usa, - but in conrtrast there are far fewer possibilities for ukraine compared to the full- nato membership. nato plus seems like a weak compromise in the current -
in the security council | but did they change? right, thank you very much. another comment please from our audience? the proposal to include ukraine as a nato plus member- will give the possibility to the usa to foster and enlarge - the american arms sales to ukraine. that looks to me as a great adventure commercial- possibility for the usa, - but in conrtrast there are far fewer possibilities for ukraine compared to the full- nato membership. nato plus seems like a weak compromise in the current - discussions with the russian federation. j all right, thanks very much indeed. a clear voice there in support of ukrainejoining nato as a full member. that s all we have got time for from this edition of global questions. we have been looking at what putin s grand strategy is in former soviet states such as ukraine, and we ve heard a range of views. remember, we are the programme that gives you the trendlines behind the headlines.
anybody want to make a comment? russia became a successor state of the soviet union, they took over their seat in the security council | but did they change? right, thank you very much. another comment please from our audience? the proposal to include ukraine as a nato plus member- will give the possibility to the usa to foster and enlarge - the american arms sales to ukraine. that looks to me as a great adventure commercial- possibility for the usa, - but in conrtrast there are far fewer possibilities for ukraine compared to the full- nato membership. nato plus seems like a weak compromise in the current - discussions with the russian federation. j all right, thanks very much indeed. a clear voice there in support of ukrainejoining nato as a full member. that s all we have got time for from this edition of global questions. we have been looking at what putin s grand strategy is in former soviet states such as ukraine,