LONDON - Europe hosts this week an unprecedented number of high-level diplomatic conferences aimed at defusing the military tensions between Russia and the West over the future of Ukraine.
Nobody doubts that the stakes are high: Nothing less than the future security structure of the entire continent is being decided. Yet despite the feverish diplomacy now unfolding, the chances of a compromise remain low, and the dangers of Russian military intervention in Ukraine have seldom been greater.
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