BBC News – Ukraine: UK and EU ‘badly misread’ Russia
Committee chairman Lord Tugendhat said: "The lack of robust analytical capacity, in both the UK and the EU, effectively led to a catastrophic misreading of the mood in the run-up to the crisis."
The above is taken from the BBC news website and refers to a detailed report by the important and well informed House of Lords EU Committee. It is a shocking thing to discover ineptitude and miscalculation at the highest levels of both our country and our partners in Europe at a time of international crisis.
It is however exactly what this blog has been saying time, time and time again.