Anders Åslund: Ukraine on the agenda in Davos
A general insight was that peace with Russia is impossible. It had to be defeated. Several speakers emphasized that such an outcome required two things – money and arms. Cameron underscored that the GDP of the West is 25 times that of Russia’s, and that this collective economic strength needs to be deployed against Russia. He compared the situation to the 1930s, when the West had failed to mobilize in time against Hitler.