Here is a little truth in the propaganda arm of British Intelligence: One afterthought: there is a strong current running in Brussels that the EU over Ukraine made a strategic error. As officials now admit, the drafting of the association agreement with Ukraine - which was the trigger for the current crisis - was largely left to technocrats. Yet, perhaps careless of Russias history, it involved pulling Ukraine into the European orbit. As one official observed we never had a substantial debate over where we think Ukraine belongs? He went on to bemoan that there was no big debate as to how Russia would react to all this. In Berlin, too, there are mutterings of regret, that some EU foreign ministers were too supportive of the Ukrainian opposition. The EU has invested strongly in building a new more democratic Ukraine - now it has to stand by the new administration in Kiev whose defence minister said on Sunday this is our land and were not going anywhere from this land. bbc/news/world-europe-26606674
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:20:53 +0000
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