It is the standard not just Russian but Soviet method: brinkmanship, demand the maximum, don’t concede, extract concessions from the other side
Media mentions – Wider Europe
Fears of conflict hanging over two of the world’s major suppliers are clearly going to have some impact on prices, when there is already a sense of shortage
Important issues are discussed at these meetings behind the scenes, and it’s only months later when something is announced that you realise what really happened in Munich
Gustav Gressel and Piotr Buras comment on the Russian threats at the Ukraine border
Now it looks like no one will take the lead in the next one
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is perhaps the last major European security crisis where the US would have taken the lead in responding, writes ECFR
The crisis between Russia and Ukraine could prove to be a turning point in all our thinking about security policy
What Europe thinks about war in Ukraine is described by Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard in an op-ed
What Merkel did was to impose or create a certain style: not too rash, not too fast, think a lot before you act, don’t get too excited in the way that an Emmanuel Macron or Boris Johnson gets.
Civilian infrastructure was deliberately attacked
Fears of conflict hanging over two of the world’s major suppliers are clearly going to have some impact on prices, when there is already a sense of shortage
If the Russians cross the border and sound the alarm, NATO will send additional forces to stop the invasion