The scene: A major symposium in Vienna on the reconstruction of Ukraine.
The big names of German industry were there.
Plus plenty of British peers and members of Parliament, up in arms against Putin.
Ukrainians, too, of course, beginning with the gas king, Dmytro Firtash, who, together with Ukrainian Business Future, organized the event.
And me giving the keynote address.
I recalled the cold shoulder that Obama gave Ukrainian president Poroshenko when the latter came to tell him that you don’t win a war with blankets.
I evoked the pitiful spectacle of Europe advancing in disarray, retreating, then advancing again, all the while …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
