Fewer more pathetic sights have there been than Paris on Monday night. The leaders of Europe’s eight once-great military powers, scrabbling together to meet and look relevant in a world that has left them behind. And what came of it? Only more empty words and disagreement.
Meanwhile, America’s Marco Rubio and Russia’s Sergei Lavrov were touching down in Riyadh to begin the task of drawing up Ukraine’s future without them.
