Niall Ferguson, a Scottish–American historian, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, author of several bestselling books:

"If Russia wins this war, or if it, to put it very, very modestly, is able to retain control of those parts of Ukraine that it currently does control, that so-called "land bridge" that extends right down to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, that will be the first big defeat of Cold War II for the West. Because we were all in, we were all in in our support for Zelenskyy. How many speeches did Western leaders make in support of Ukraine? How many promises did they make? How many pledges were there to be there for as long as it took? If we lose, our credibility is shot."

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