Save me from my friends, said Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France in the time of King Sun.

And in fact... boundaries were often set depending on who won and still had more power

This is the normal condition throughout Europe. Borders and States themselves have not been assigned by divine interventions.

This is why we shouldn't be outraged if a new war changes them again. The real scandal was failing to prevent war with the right mix of diplomacy and restraint - mistakes that Putin has nothing to do with.

Bad Putin, Mad Putin, Sick Putin... Childish concepts compared to our very grave shortcomings, when defending our interests there is an old man from Washington, a handful of bureaucrats from Brussels, an arms salesman from London and a Guy who transformed the void No fake authority from Rome, not to mention the Gradassi featherweight from Paris and Ottawa.

With friends like this ........ who cares about putin?