Something must be done. This is something. So let’s do it. That (put crudely) is the way Western foreign policy thinking works when confronted with a tough problem. Two ‘somethings’ were under discussion here at the Munich Security Conference: the Franco-German diplomatic initiative to end the war in Ukraine, and the American idea of sending arms to the Kiev government. Neither of them is going to work. Both have big drawbacks and may do more harm than good.
The conflict in Ukraine is a symptom, not the problem itself. The real problem is that we are facing a revisionist Russia, which …read more
Source: European Voice
