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"Mr President, every country contiguous to Russia has felt the pressure of Putinite revanchism, sometimes in the form of oil and gas diplomacy, sometimes, as in the case of Ukraine, Georgia and of course Bessarabia which we are discussing now, in the form of military occupation.
The way in which the West has responded, the way in which the European Union in particular has responded, has been an unfortunate middle way. We could have decided, when Putin made his offer of a Eurasian Customs Union stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok, to treat Russia as a strategic ally and overlook its domestic failures; or we could have decided to buttress the states on its border and to pursue a forward policy. What made no sense is to goad the Kremlin without any plan to follow through, and the people who are paying the price are not we, comfortable in Western Europe, but those in the marcher countries."@en1
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