"Federica Mogherini, named on Saturday as Catherine Ashton's successor [as the EU's foreign policy chief], said there could be no military solution to the crisis and that while sanctions were being worked on, the diplomatic process would need to continue."
Signora Mogherini, che tipo di merda e quella? Everyone working at your level understands that military actions and diplomatic processes are intertwined. Have you not read Clausewitz's "Vom Kriege?" "War is the extension of policy by other means." Well, surely you have! So why do think you can get away with insulting the intelligence of careful observers any more than Sergei Lavrov can?
Teddy Roosevelt said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Al Capone said, "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." These aphorisms speak to the same unfortunate truth: there are times when diplomacy must be backed by the threat of force if it is to be successful.
So, talk to us straight. We're adults, not children. Military actions are going to be among the tools we use to bring about a diplomatic solution that is acceptable. Diplomacy alone is not going to expel Russian troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, or Crimea, and any lesser outcome would be a sell-out of Ukraine. Go ahead, give away pieces of Ukraine just like Neville Chamberlain gave away pieces of Czechoslovakia, and see what happens next, for that is what diplomacy without the threat of force reaps. Always has, always will.
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