“NATO has to walk this very fine edge… we don’t intend to let anyone use this Ukraine issue as a start to World War Three.”
Lord Owen interviewed on UK’s GBNews, 15 March 2022.
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Why Ukraine will be Putin’s undoing: Podcast
Lord David Owen, former Foreign Secretary on why he thinks Ukraine is Vladimir Putin’s undoing; how the Russian President’s approach has radically changed since he first took power; and fears about nuclear threats.
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From ‘Choppers Politics’: the weekly politics podcast of the UK’s Telegraph newspaper, presented by Christopher ‘Chopper’ Hope, associate editor. Released 04 March 22.
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Inside Putin’s mind: power has blinded Russia’s new tsar
The dictator’s untrammelled influence has given him delusions of righteousness, Our democratic world must challenge him or be crushed.
Lord Owen and Professor Ian Roberston write in UK’s Sunday Times, Sunday 27 February 2022
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“….power is as potent a brain-changer as any drug and Putin is in a dangerous mental state because of this. His religiosity and sense of spiritual mission, combined with his blunted …
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Ukraine invasion crisis: Lord Owen’s speech to the House of Lords
Lord Owen addressed the UK’s House of Lords about the unfolding invasion of Ukraine by Russia. 25 February 2022.
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Russia & Britain: from Navarino to Ukraine – podcast
Lord Owen spoke on 25 February 2022 to Jack Blanchard for Politico’s ‘Westminster Insider’ podcast about the turbulent history of the Anglo-Russian relationship.
As Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine plunges Russia’s relations with the West into crisis,, Lord Owen charts the many ups and downs of the 19th and 20th centuries, a period through which Britain and Russia fought side by side in three major wars while also coming …
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NATO and the Future of Europe–US Relations after Afghanistan
Lord David Owen reflects on the history and future of Europe–US relations in an essay for the RUSI Journal, 2022 (Royal United Services Institute, London)
“We are living in a very strange and worrying political world, with the rise in military might of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia and President Xi Jinping’s China being set against internal criticism of NATO within Europe, and Europe’s falling out with the US over Afghanistan.
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Remember Kissinger’s advice to the Ukrainians
Lord Owen and other distinguished observers write to the UK’s Financial Times, 23 February 2022
“…..Vladimir Putin’s demand that Ukraine be barred from Nato is the latest iteration of a Russian policy stretching back to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.”
“In his article ‘The empire returns’ (The Weekend Essay, Life & Arts, January 28) Serhii Plokhy correctly says that president Vladimir Putin’s demand that Ukraine be barred
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Nato must meet Russian aggression with determination – and meaningful sanctions
Lord Owen writing in the UK-based PoliticsHome ‘HouseNews’, 17 February 2022.
“Vladimir Putin’s encirclement of Ukraine has re-established the unity of NATO and brought the people of Ukraine far closer than before….. (NATO) has never been neutral and wee will not be neutral about any invasion of Ukraine.”
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