Senior fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies, Professor Francis Fukuyama, said South Africa's stance on the war in Ukraine was "disappointing", but he added that he understood there were economic considerations.
Speaking during a Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) webinar on Thursday evening, he said it was likely Ukraine would win the war between it and Russia and that there was little chance that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons.
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