What on earth is going on here?
The only reasonable interpretation is that our leaders are attempting to re-enact a scene from Michael Mann’s excellent 1930s gangster film Public Enemies (sample line: “how long does it take you to go through a bank?”).
Alex adds: well, given the gangsta hustla manner in which he arrived, it was clearly always going to end this way. I blame Putin.
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Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).
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