Why has Europe dithered until the ostensible eleventh hour to mobilize, and, with calls to allow NATO weapons to strike inside Russia, in such a potentially risky way?
European defense policy is in disarray, as the continent edges toward likely escalation with a nuclear-armed Russia. Calls for Ukraine to use North Atlantic Treaty-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia juxtapose with proposals from President Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz that climate policies are the solution to Europe’s problems. Meanwhile, European trade with Russia continues via Kazakhstan. Urgently needed is clarity.
