Bogusław Chrabota: Forum in the shadow cast by the war

Still, as participants in the Forum, never have we been confronted with such a complex situation in Central Europe as we are today. This change is most concisely recounted by one simple, albeit terrible, word – war. Personally, I have never imagined – and such a belief was shared by most of the Forum participants – that we would face the prospect of a massive war on our borders. We have been reducing risks to small frozen conflicts, such as the occupation of South Ossetia, separatism in Moldova’s Transnistria, or the takeover of Donbass by separatists and Russian intelligence services.