The Russian side stopped playing the game
Media mentions – Wider Europe
Putin might want Nord Stream 2, but he doesn’t want it so much. He definitely wants Ukraine more than that pipeline, so it’s not something you can use to deter Putin
The Times publishes the article, Ukraine crisis: Poles stand-alone in military support if Russia invades, poll finds based on Mark Leonard and Ivan Krastev’s most recent publication
ECFR survey, The crisis of European security: What Europeans think about the war in Ukraine is the FT’s chart du jour
[The Normandy format] is the only format in which Russian talk to Ukrainians – so that’s the way of bringing Ukrainians at the table
Scholz got what he wanted during this visit
Erdogan has a special connection to Ukraine and will support it and NATO; on the other hand, he cannot upset Putin so much that he turns off the gas or seeks revenge in Syria
Yes, it’s probably a way to feed divisions among Western countries, and not only the European Union but all the Western allies