Is a mood shift on Ukraine underway in Europe?
June 3, 2025 No Comments
Following years of requests, pleas and false starts, Ukraine has, it appears, definitively been given permission to fire missiles deep into Russian territory.
Following years of requests, pleas and false starts, Ukraine has, it appears, definitively been given permission to fire missiles deep into Russian territory.
When the no-fly zone over Iraq was in place, radars that illuminated NATO aircraft were routinely engaged and destroyed before they could lock on. NATO member aircraft killing Russians on Russian-occupied soil has potential for escalation along the lines of World War Three. Has anyone explained this to Starmer and Macron? If so, did they understand?
Europe stands ready and willing to take its place as the arsenal of democracy. ‘We have agreed on a strategy for fully re-arming and re-equipping Europe,’ tweeted French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday. ‘We will fully restore our independence in the coming five years.’
Firstly, despite all the Western firepower, technology, information and knowhow that has been made available, Ukraine is losing. It’s imposing a terrible blood price, but the Russians are inexorably advancing.
THE liberal internationalist consensus – born post-1945, uniting Europe’s political class across left and right – is on its last legs. Donald Trump’s return to power signals the shift: America’s global babysitting days are fading, and the old order’s grip is slipping.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in Downing Street last week – as well as Paris, Rome, Berlin and Dubrovnik – asking for Nato membership. In every city, he heard the same ‘not yet’ as he’d received in Washington last month.
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