The New Democratic Alliance May Not Outlast the Ukraine War
The U.S. and Europe have rallied to support Kyiv — but cracks in the solidarity are already becoming apparent.
Best pals. For now, anyway.
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Russia has invaded and devastated Ukraine without the smallest provocation. Most North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations, led thank goodness by the U.S. — two years ago, we could have expected nothing from the White House — join in condemning President Vladimir Putin’s aggression. Some are supplying military aid.
Yet there is nothing like unanimity in Europe, never mind elsewhere, about appropriate policy responses. The old Cold War certainties, the meticulously prepared plans to make common cause in confrontation scenarios between the Soviet Union and the West, no longer exist.