Today marks the twelfth anniversary of the arson attack on the Trade Unions House in Odessa

It has long been clear that the premonitions which many of you undoubtedly felt that day or in the following days turned out to be correct: Western governments made a fateful decision that day. And the ruins generated by that decision are now visible in nearly half the world; not only in Ukraine, but in Gaza, and now in Iran. What happened then in Odessa was a harbinger of far greater violence,…