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[Part 2 of 2] Mr. Ian Proud was a member of the British Diplomatic Service from 1999 until 2023. During that time he worked in Thailand and Afghanistan as well as many years directly from 10 Downing Street. His most eventful posting however was the position as Economic Counsellor at the UK Embassy in Moscow from 2014 until 2019, about which he recently published a book called “A Mistfit in Moscow: How British Diplomacy in Russia Failed” Part 1 of Interview: In this segment we talk about the people in the UK Foreign Office (and other western diplomatic services) and the governments in general who are driving the escalation and non-diplomacy with Russia. While some of those effects arise from a lack of ability, there are also enough neocons who agree with the over-all strategy to “fight to the last Ukrainian“ because it strategically weakens Russia (so they believe) while it strengthens Trans-Atlantic ties.
