Only a True Catastrophe Will Force Europe to Act
Not Trump, not Ukraine, not the Russian threat, says Keir Giles of Chatham House.
This interview was first published in the Euromaidan Press.
The Russo-Ukraine war failed to convince Europe that Russia poses an existential threat to the continent – or to take its defense spending seriously. That’s the bad news. The good? Unfortunately, there’s none, says Keir Giles, the author of Russia’s War on Everybody and Who Will Defend Europe? and Senior Consulting Fellow at Chatham House.
He bluntly states that unless there’s an attack on a European country that directly impacts the interests of France or Germany, Europe will continue to be asleep. Especially since many European leaders are happy to accept Donald Trump’s potential ceasefire.
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