
A generation of anti-hydrocarbon policies has crippled Europe’s defense capabilities.
Whatever one thinks about its causes, course, and consequences, the war in Ukraine rages on. That unavoidable fact has brought many in Europe to something of an epiphany. In late February, at a summit of European leaders in Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron asserted that “[t]his is a European war,” and asked his fellow leaders, “Should we delegate our future to the American electorate? The answer is no, whatever their vote.”
