Mark Leonard

“A sense of 'my crisis is more important than your crisis'.”

Mark Leonard · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-29

Leonard described a sense of competing crises where each group feels theirs is most important.

“The financial crisis of 2007-8, the migrant crisis of 2015, the environmental crisis, Covid, inflation after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and now again with the war in the Gulf.”

Mark Leonard · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-29

Leonard listed the series of crises he says have layered on top of each other in Europe.

“We've already seen this in the US,”

Mark Leonard · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-29

Leonard drew a comparison with polarisation already seen in the United States.

“One crisis layers on top of the other,”

Mark Leonard · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-29

Leonard described a build-up of cascading, competing crises in Europe that have never been properly resolved.