Gustav Gressel and Piotr Buras comment on the Russian threats at the Ukraine border
Media mentions – Russia attacks Ukraine
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
By invading Ukraine in 2014 and by invading Georgia in 2008, Russia has effectively established a veto over those two countries’ membership
The goal wasn’t to go to war, but rather to jolt the West out of its comfort zone and initiate talks about arms control measures and the future of the Minsk agreements
The Kremlin probably decided that it is counterproductive to continue it that way given the world’s reaction. You cannot keep up the tensions on that stage for very long