How Europe is rapidly losing its naivety

The terrible war in Ukraine has so far been a crash course for Europe. The continent is rapidly losing its naivety and is lucky to have the US.

New sanctions and weapon supplies are announced every day. Which is good, but it took a devasting war to wake us up. Nothing preventive or forward-thinking about that.

Yes, we adapt quickly now, but should have acted years ago. You cannot make up for years of sleep in just two weeks. That’s not just easy-hindsight-analysis.