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Matthew Parris

Leave Ukraine to the Russians

6 March 2014

3:00 PM

6 March 2014

3:00 PM

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‘You can’t always get what you want,’ chorused Mick Jagger, ‘but if you try some time/You just might find/You get what you need.’ The danger with Ukraine is that the western powers will get what they want, not what we need.

I write this as one who has travelled in Ukraine, loved the country and seen that its people (though poor) are talented and energetic.

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