And there`s this interesting fact about a constitutional monarchy. The monarchy symbolizes unity, but it legitimizes political division.
David Miliband
The Public Record
this trend has been going on for about 15 years, that the Ukraine crisis is the capstone of this age of impunity, and it needs to bring a reaction like of which has not happened since the Second World War.
Each day brings a new low. And that U.N. figure that United Nations figure of one child every second becoming a refugee from Ukraine is really haunting.
the invasion itself is a breach of international law, but the shelling of civilian infrastructure, the targeting of hospitals that has been exposed by the World Health Organization, these are all acts of impunity, which after all, the…
The western world has said that liberal democracy is on the line. And one of the aspects of liberal democracy is to treat those in need properly.
I would also like to see this as an opportunity to extend the refugee resettlement program to Ukrainians, so that they are given a chance to rebuild their lives here.
There are well founded reports of effective war crimes that are being committed in the shelling of civilian areas.
The fact that Russia should today be turned into a pariah state is a very significant change in the balance that’s existed over certainly over the Cold War, of the post-Cold War period.
In this case, I think Europe needs the 27, plus, I would argue the U.K. even though it`s left the E.U. to agree to share out the refugee responsibility.
This is a really great moment not just for Europe, but for the global order because this is impunity many times over and it`s close to home.