Can the 'Jeannie be put back in the bottle' in the Crimea? I don't think it can, the political system in this incorrigible corrupt region, will now drift inexorable into civil war, one side provoked by Russia the other by the west. This will be a proxy war - untold distress and harm will come of it. The fear in the European Union is a flood of refuges seeking to flee the ensuing conflict. There is a flurry of activity - William Hague the Foreign Secretary was in Kiev yesterday. John Kerry the Secretary of State is busy clocking up his 'air miles' - going from one capital to another. Meanwhile the poor citizens of the region are living in immediate peril for their lives. Apparent in Moscow long queues have formed outside banks as they seek to change their rotten Russian currency into dollars, sterling or euros.
I have recently finished an excellent biography of Disraeli by Douglas Hurd (one time British Foreign Secretary) and Edward Young. Disraeli had little geographic knowledge of the world, apart from the UK, no such luck for the hapless William Hague.
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