Anyone ill-informed enough to think that Vladimir Putin is punctiliously polite is an unlikely oracle on European security matters. The Russian leader’s conversational repertoire is a notorious mix of bizarre theories, foul language, macho threats and macabre jokes.
So I was not surprised by the recent article by Ben Judah in Politico, quoting among others Radek Sikorski, the former foreign minister of Poland, who is now speaker of the Sejm, the Polish parliament (full disclosure: both men are friends of mine). Sikorski described Putin telling the then Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, at a meeting in Moscow that: “Ukraine is an …read more
Source: European Voice
