{"id":4348,"date":"2022-01-31T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:16:44","slug":"a-significant-risk-of-invasion-or-the-start-of-a-diplomatic-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/01\/31\/a-significant-risk-of-invasion-or-the-start-of-a-diplomatic-process\/","title":{"rendered":"A Significant Risk of Invasion or the Start of a Diplomatic Process?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The UK government has uncovered a plot to install a new regime in Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed the accusations. Professor of Russian and European Politics Richard Sakwa has been asked to give his expert commentary to various media outlets. <\/p>\n<p>The UK government recently shared Intelligence that there is significant risk of Russia invading Ukraine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2273\/sakwa-richard\">Professor Richard Sakwa<\/a> was asked to his discuss the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine in various broadcast interviews recently which we have collated here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;All these things have to be taken seriously, but I am rather sceptical&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;A long fuse has been burning about the dissatisfaction of Russia with the European Security Order as it was established after The Cold War.&#8217; Sakwa told media last week &#8216;Since 2018 Putin has said that Russia has had enough. I don&#8217;t think that invasion is imminent but a way of starting a diplomatic process.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up with these broadcast interviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=05c3e0f7-7d41-4054-9c41-93cdfeca9e4d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">BBC Radio 5Live,<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=bb01942d-4a4b-462d-8106-ab7d68aef6be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Euronews<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=78c71a9e-ab94-4ff6-8dfc-5634ac35ef3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Al Jazeera<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=cb5c851e-4250-41f3-8939-06a045492a44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">Sky News<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=d413b2bd-db7b-4175-87b9-0261a6e84846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">BBC World News<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=70272a7d-444a-4c03-b1ba-fb4c59448f65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">BBC News<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=ab51de4c-8636-418e-9bc6-f50c771ff278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">LBC<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=98f08b45-a911-412a-a5a3-bbe12d0d9d6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">Heart FM<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=f511dcbe-93ae-4aa9-a5de-c34062bac210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"8\">BBC Radio Kent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y48Ev7IbDSQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"9\">TRT World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has uncovered a plot to install a new regime in Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed the accusations. Professor of Russian and European Politics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/01\/31\/a-significant-risk-of-invasion-or-the-start-of-a-diplomatic-process\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":4367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}