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

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    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.