“It’s a depressing moment when, as a political analyst, you realise that one of the most dominant trends in international politics is déjà vu.”
Haunting @dpatrikarakos essay on when the much-promised support for Ukraine from the West will come. /1
unherd.com/2022/01/why-bi…
Haunting @dpatrikarakos essay on when the much-promised support for Ukraine from the West will come. /1
unherd.com/2022/01/why-bi…
“Why did Putin just walk into Crimea in 2014 & take it? Because he knew the West would talk but not act. Why did Belarusian President Lukashenko feel able to order a Ryanair plane down and take a dissident off it last year? Because he knew the West would talk but not act… /2
…Why is Moscow, now via Minsk, continuing to weaponise migrants against the EU? Well, you get the point. Moscow suffers no real consequences for its behaviour, so why should it stop? All the while, the West talks endlessly without really doing much... /3
… And that only makes things worse: for Ukrainians, for democratic Belarusians and, above all, for our own credibility. The biggest winner is always the Kremlin.”
Read it all : /4
unherd.com/2022/01/why-bi…
Read it all : /4
unherd.com/2022/01/why-bi…
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