Ukraine has revealed the new world of western impotence | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
Simon Jenkins: 'I am starting to lose this one. How dare anyone excuse a
great power hurling brute force against a small one, justifying it with
some nonsense about extremists and a "responsibility to protect". There
should be no place for such cynical bullying in a 21st-century world
order. And for what? So a leader with a virility complex can play to his
domestic gallery. The whole thing is utterly unacceptable. There must
be costs and consequences.
'But enough of Iraq. What of Ukraine?'
William Hague, the
british Foreign Secretary, meets Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Ukrainian prime
minister in Kiev on 3 March. Photograph: ITAR-TASS/Barcroft Media
