Is Henry Kissinger right about Ukraine?

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Freddy Gray speaks to Sergey Radchenko a Cold War historian and Wilson E. Schmidt distinguished professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and visiting professor at Cardiff University. They discuss a recent speech by Henry Kissinger who believes that Ukraine should made territorial concessions to Russia — is he right?

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