As the war enters its fifth year, it\u2019s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost<\/p>\n
Viewed from Europe, the US\u2019s failure to defend the people of Ukraine against Russian aggression is the greatest and most consequential of a host of recent American betrayals. It\u2019s not just the sickening subservience shown to Vladimir Putin, an indicted war criminal and mass killer. It\u2019s not only the victim-blaming and bullying of Kyiv into making concessions. It\u2019s not even Donald Trump\u2019s crass attempts to monetise the war<\/a> and milk the misery of millions for Nobel glory<\/a>, while undercutting Nato allies and trampling sovereign rights.<\/p>\n What really shocks, and hurts, is the sheer bad faith shown by a country that Europeans always counted a friend. As the 18th-century English gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe noted, \u201cfew circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted\u201d. To echo Trump\u2019s dark warning after he was rebuffed over Greenland: Europe will remember.<\/a><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the war enters its fifth year, it\u2019s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost Viewed from Europe, the US\u2019s failure to defend the people of Ukraine against Russian aggression is the greatest and most consequential of a host of recent American betrayals. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}