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Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
The transatlantic alliance has served the interests of its members very well for decades, right up until this administration.
2017-2018 should have been the wakeup call, considering Trump was openly treating NATO as a protection racket in his first term. The EU didn’t take it seriously enough at the time, and now we’re paying the price for trying to ride it out instead of preparing from that point.