“If we do not get the European Union’s response right and do not give Ukraine enough support to stop Russia – we are next.”
A chorus of alarm is sounding out across the continent as a re-energised Russia looks set to accelerate its war with Ukraine.
On Tuesday, France’s leading military officer, General Pierre Schill, published a letter in his country’s leading daily newspaper,, claiming he was “ready” to deploy 20,000 troops with just 30 days’ notice. A further 40,000 troops from EU forces were ready to follow, he added. Macron repeated the call last week, insisting “the security of Europe and the security of the French people is at stake here.”
But Washington’s aid for the embattled young democracy in Kyiv has fallen foul of Washington DC’s hyperpartisan politics. That and steadily increasing support from China’s Chairman Xi Jinping has left Putin feeling enabled. During the Munich conference I was asked why I am so gloomy. Well, somebody has to tell it like it is, so hereâs how it is: Things are not going well. ð§µLithuania sounded the alarm as early as 2008. The tiny Baltic country’s first president following the collapse of the USSR, Vytautas Landsbergis, warned Putin’s then invasion of Georgia was just the first step: “It is not the situation in Georgia only; it is a very bad situation in Europe, and for Europe’s future.
A destroyed military vehicle of the Ukrainian troops in the border area between Russia and Ukraine in the Belgorod region. Picture: Russian Defence Ministry / AFP“We don’t lack capacity. We lack the political will and urgency necessary to support Ukraine and maintain our collective security,” Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told the Munich Security Conference in February.
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