Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Edward Lucas: Why, oh why, didn’t we listen to the Eastern Europeans?
Russian Msta-S self-propelled howitzers fire during military exercises in the southern Russia's Volgograd region, on April 2, 2014.
Eastern Europe is not a geographical expression. It is a collection of worries. During the Cold War, it comprised the captive nations of the Soviet empire. Some of them resented the “eastern” tag (Prague, the Czechoslovak capital, is hundreds of miles west of “Western” capitals such as Helsinki, Vienna or Athens). Some felt abandoned after the West acceded to the surrender of Eastern Europe at Yalta and did nothing to counter the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia
