Peter Hitchens vs Edward Lucas on the Crimea confrontation
Both these short articles appeared in the Mail on Sunday today. My friend Ed Lucas (a fellow former Moscow Correspondent and now a distinguished writer for the Economist) and I also hope to discuss this matter in New York City on Wednesday 12th March, at a debate organised by Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S.
My view: We have been rubbing Russia up the wrong way for nearly 25 years…