"First, see the world as it is, not as we wish it to be."
This. The magnitude of naiveté and ignorance in Europe, the people saying things like "Russians trade with us, they won't do anything stupid" or "we have NATO, we are safe", is what led us to the point we're at now.
This. The magnitude of naiveté and ignorance in Europe, the people saying things like "Russians trade with us, they won't do anything stupid" or "we have NATO, we are safe", is what led us to the point we're at now.
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Timothy Garton Ash
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