Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

Leave Ukraine to the Russians

We don't know what we're doing. So let's stop doing it

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issue 08 March 2014

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[/audioplayer]‘You can’t always get what you want,’ chorused Mick Jagger, ‘but if you try some time/You just might find/You get what you need.’ The danger with Ukraine is that the western powers will get what they want, not what we need.

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