David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, participated in a panel conversation hosted by the Brookings Institution about how the U.S. should handle its relationships with Ukraine, Russia, and European countries going forward.
“The stakes here, I would say, are enormous,” Kramer said when discussing Russia’s war in Ukraine. “And they’re enormous for us because this is a huge battle playing out between authoritarianism and freedom. It is about depriving a country of its independence, forcibly changing borders – which we have not seen since World War II on the European continent.”
“If Putin is not stopped in Ukraine – even though the Russian military has suffered a terrible toll as the result of his disastrous decision to go into Ukraine – he will not stop there,” Kramer said.
