Carl Bildt has been foreign minister of Sweden since 2006 and was prime minister from 1991-1994. He spoke to the WorldPost’s Nathan Gardels earlier this week at a conference on the Ukraine crisis at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. WorldPost: You are among Vladimir Putin’s toughest foes in Europe. Why are you so much more outspoken than most other European statesmen on Russia’s annexation of Crimea and meddling in eastern Ukraine?Carl Bildt: It is for a very simple but extremely clear reason: Europe’s borders have been drawn in blood, and to change them will draw blood again.
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Source: The Huffington Post