CNN’s Global Public Square cites the Atlantic Council for hosting an event with former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt:
You gave a very tough speech at the Atlantic Council in which you said that Russia’s annexation of Crimea has only one parallel in modern history, in the last 30, 40 years, and that was Iraq – Saddam Hussein’s annexation of Kuwait. That was, of course, met with a massive international coalition that repulsed that intervention. What is one to conclude from the fact that there’s no such forceful counter-measure in this case?
Well, I mean in the case of Saddam Hussein in Kuwait, of course, there was a resolution by the U.N. Security Council. Now, Russia is a member of the Security Council, so that’s never going to happen. I mean they’re going to block everything that is related to this.