It is setting the pace in arms deliveries, it invited its allies to gather in Germany for a special Ukraine Defensive Consultive Group meeting, and it is providing the necessary deterrence against the nuclear power Russia with its own arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Putin would have celebrated one success after another because Europe wouldn't have been able to act as resolutely as the U.S. is right now.
At the latest, Europe will have to have begun building a strong defense and deterrence regime against the next potential aggression from Vladimir Putin, who could remain in power for a very long time to come.
France and Germany were once the collective engine of Europe, and Macron and Scholz should become the drivers of a watershed moment in Europe together with the Eastern European member states, which have been criminally ignored so far - just think, for example, of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which would have bypassed Germany's eastern neighbors to deliver gas directly from Russia.
An initial symbol of a break from the past in Europe should be a joint trip by Macron and Scholz to Kyiv.The Return of Cold War Rules.
Either France will have to expand its umbrella of protection or Europe will have to develop its own system of nuclear deterrence.
Will we need one for Russia, too? Or will Europe have to try to force the country to its knees until Putin falls, with all the suffering that would entail for Russia's population?
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Germany and France Must Drive Effort for Credible Deterrent Against Russia
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