The one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting down of Flight MH17 over Ukraine is an opportunity to take stock of the costs of Europe’s latest, biggest, and apparently most intractable security crisis.
Twelve months after Russia-backed separatists were first accused of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, Europe’s relations with Russia — having advanced by leaps and bounds over nearly three decades since the fall of the Iron Curtain — have again descended into deep distrust and hostility. …read more