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...There will be a territorial carve-up in which most of Ukraine will remain Ukrainian, but some bits that don’t want that (notably Crimea) will become Russian....
...There are good reasons for firm western support for Ukraine: we don’t want to live in a world where big states freely invade small ones. But the “Nato next” scenario is not one of them....
...But isn’t the preference of a people to be governed by their own homegrown institutions rather than a multilateral bureaucracy exactly that? Sir Anthony Brenton Cambridge, UK...
...“We’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops.”...
...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington Letter in response to this article: The west needs cool heads not maximalist war aims / From Tony Brenton, Former British Ambassador to Moscow, Cambridge...
...In Howard Brenton’s Cancelling Socrates, we’re in the Athens of antiquity where the infant democracy is already feeling fragile....
.../ From Sir Anthony Brenton, Cambridge, UK...
...It isn’t. Russia is fulfilling all its contracts (as confirmed by Angela Merkel) and indeed is currently supplying gas to Europe at near record levels....
...“We weren’t really swept up in it,” she said, as her dogs played. “A friend of mine called me. They knew the parents and just couldn’t believe this would happen. They’re nice people.”...
...But isn’t it more true to say that the EU is trying to implement an agreement while the UK is trying to renegotiate it?...
...You will understand, won’t you, if I don’t take obituaries for the US empire at face value?...
...“When I heard about a surge of that size I didn’t believe it,” said Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia....
...“We won't let any group, whatever it is, undermine our laws or our values,” government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday....
...Passing time has brought about the transfer of Anthony Brenton’s tolerant gaze from Moscow to Beijing (Letters, October 13)....
...“I don’t think this will end well.”...
...“In Britain, that process hasn't even begun,” it added. “We hope this will be the beginning of that process.”...
...Tony Brenton Cambridge, UK...
...Sir Tony Brenton Cambridge, UK...
...I didn’t want to do that,” he said. The court has tried to assemble the pieces of Mr Balliet’s life and explore his motivations, but it has been hard....
...With short hair, you can’t hide a bad haircut.” mariannestrokirk.com Ini Archibong, furniture designer “My hairdresser is Brenton Lee....
...Crisply directed by Howard Davies, Brenton’s absorbing play about legacy and responsibility is one of three made free to watch online by Hampstead Theatre....
...We don’t know yet for Covid-19.”...
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...The alleged shooter, Brenton Tarrant, is said to have authored a 74-page manifesto, also shared on 8chan and Twitter....
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