An anti-Putin poster in Warsaw in Poland: Russia’s aggression has caused the biggest change in European energy policy in half a century. Picture: Getty
“If real trouble ever comes to Europe, it will come from the east.” In a discussion of Russia, this was the conclusion arrived at in my 2009 book: Ireland, Europe and the World: Writings on a New Century. The conclusion was reached because Russia is profoundly different from the rest of Europe, and from the continent’s other big powers in particular.Subscribe from just €1 for the first month!