The destiny of Europe is being played out before our eyes.
By denying its neighbors the freedom to choose their model and their alliances, by undermining an international order based on the rule of law, by rejecting supposedly "degenerate" democratic values, Vladimir Putin's Russia stands as a radical adversary of Westerners.
For two years since it has been shelling Ukraine, sending its own population to massacre and threatening NATO with nuclear weapons, the stakes have become clear.
However, defeatism lurks.
The failure of Ukraine in its attempt at a counterattack last year, the recent successes of the Russian army in a few ghost villages on a distant front could lead us to believe that the mass is said: we have done everything to help Kiev and Putin will still win!
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Not so fast.
First, we have not done everything to support the Ukrainians, far from it.
Western military support, late in principle, turns out to be both considerable and insufficient...
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