Has the fate of Europe been decided in Miami? That was the fear this week, when European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius bemoaned "unacceptable" proposals hatched by US and Russia to end the war in Ukraine and the fact that Europe seemed unable to lead with its own. "I'm tired of always discussing American plans," he told an event in Strasbourg hosted by French magazine L'Express. "It would be better if we elaborated ours."

In the contention over the United States' peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role — carping from the sidelines. Not only can the once-great European powers no longer dictate the fate of far-flung parts of the world, they can't even dictate the end of a war involving a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their own future. We're a long way from the British controlling about a quarter of the globe's territory in the early 20th century; a long way from British and French diplomats, Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot respectively, drawing the lines in 1916 to divide up the Ottoman Empire; a long way from Napoleon sitting with Tsar Alexander in Tilsit in 1807 and re-arranging the map of Europe.

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