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well, i think senator romney, to his credit, was very prescient, and i think we ve had, frankly we, meaning collectively, the west has had decades of failure in assuming that russia s modernisation and the growth of a middle class in russia would somehow lead russia to be a more responsible stakeholder in the international system. but when you have a country that s run by a clique of kgb agents, things have turned out very differently. and i think that was a collective mistake that the west has made, as i said, over a much longer period of time. where s the, you know, there s this phrase of course you know the off ramp for vladimir putin? you study him carefully, even to this day. where do you think the off ramp for him is now? because right now, itjust looks like he is prepared to double down to do whatever it takes to subjugate ukraine. and it s not clear that he s going to back off, and it s not clear what we re going to do. yeah, well, the near term

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