Foreign Affairs committee  That is quite worrying. Again, we need to take that with a grain of salt, but I think that is an indicator. As we all know, he has cut down all information coming from outside of Russia, so he is completely controlling the narrative. He is very good at stoking tropes—the West i

Foreign Affairs committee  Can I jump in on that one?

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. It's a good question. Putin's popularity is really difficult to get a clear read on, because it's a non-democratic society. That said, there are public opinion polls. In the early ones, when the war was escalated, starting in February, his popularity before that was

Foreign Affairs committee  To my co-expert, Ukraine did offer neutrality in the last series of peace talks, and that was rejected. It's not a question of their not being prepared to do that; they did. To the humanitarian question, I think Canada should look at this in terms of short-, medium- and long-te

Foreign Affairs committee  Putin has imperial ambitions; that is without a doubt, and he wants to expand his influence, so that I think is very clear. The question that nobody is asking, which I think really needs to be put on the table, is about this issue. We talk about Russia as a monolith, but it's th

Foreign Affairs committee  I agree with you. This is a standoff, and the existing tools we have as members of the international community are inadequate. That was my point. This is the time to come up with new ideas. I'm racking my brain, and I think we all need to. I don't know that we're coming to this

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. I think there is a probability.

Foreign Affairs committee  We won't be able to see it because it's a closed political system. If his opponents are scheming, they are hiding from him and from us.

Foreign Affairs committee  China is just waiting to see how it's going to benefit. It's not going to support Russia or oppose Russia. It wants Russia to become weaker and then it will take over Russia's position in the international.... That's what China is waiting for.

Foreign Affairs committee  It is because it can then fill in Russia's place and have a more prominent role.

Foreign Affairs committee  Belarus.

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely, those steps need to be taken. How effective they will be is questionable, but it's certainly demonstrable that being booted out of the G7 meant something. It cuts off access, and I think that needs to be happening on all spheres; it must be clear that if you behave li

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm going to give the chain of command question to my colleague. I can take the palace coup question. As a historian...we've seen Khrushchev peacefully removed from power. I think that would be the best possible scenario. The mechanism to remove him is either assassination or

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm going to jump in first here. I'm not a military expert, but, on the nuclear question, we're all focusing on Putin, and I think military and nuclear experts know that this is not a decision that one person takes and can execute regardless of what's going on around him. I thin

Foreign Affairs committee  We've already seen the Zaporizhzhia case. Watch carefully what's going on around Chernobyl and these other nuclear power stations. My impression is they're trying to deprive Ukraine of energy rather than trying to cause nuclear explosions, because Ukraine gets a significant part