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Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Two Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine

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On Feb. 24, 2022—almost exactly two years ago—Russian President Vladimir Putin executed a plan that devastated Ukraine and posed to Europe its toughest challenge in a generation. The ensuing thrust-and-parry of war has often been described as a stalemate. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former secretary-general of NATO, says it’s incorrect to term the war a draw. Instead, he has written in Foreign Policy, the means to deliver a Ukrainian victory remain firmly in Western hands.

But how exactly can Europe and the United States succeed now when they haven’t before? What fate awaits Kyiv as the war enters its third year? For answers, FP’s Ravi Agrawal spoke with Rasmussen on FP Live.

NATO’s former secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, says Ukraine is in a critical situation after Russia captured the city of Avdiivka. 

NATO’s former secretary general explains what Europe and NATO can do to “Trump-proof” the alliance and how the former U.S. president weakened NATO politically. 

Rasmussen on how the Israel-Hamas has distracted attention from the war in Ukraine and how Russian President Vladimir Putin is exploiting the situation. 

Rasmussen explains that in order to win over the Global South, the West must offer developing countries better alternatives than China and Russia.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Former NATO secretary-general

Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a former secretary-general of NATO as well as a former Danish prime minister, minister of economic affairs, and parliamentarian. He is the founding chairman of Rasmussen Global and the founder of the Alliance of Democracies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of democracy and free markets around the globe.

 

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Ravi Agrawal

Editor in chief, Foreign Policy

Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy, the host of FP Live, and a regular world affairs analyst on TV and radio. Before joining FP in 2018, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, including as the network’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He is the author of India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.

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