Ukraine-European Union Relations
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Mark Adomanis: Europe’s Russia policy pleases nobody
European Foreign Affairs chief Federica Mogherini (R) talks to French Defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian at the start of a European defence Ministers meeting at the European Council in Brussels, on Nov. 18.
For reasons that are understandable even to an arch-realist such as myself, increasingly large numbers of Europeans - including many people in countries that have traditionally been quite sympathetic to Russian concerns - have decided that Putin's Russia is not a "partner" to be engaged with, but an adversary to be confronted, isolated and eventually defeated.
