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Outlook is grim as Europe scrambles to face Russia alone
Minus the US defence umbrella, it is doubtful the Europeans will be able to muster the resources to defend Ukraine against an emboldened Moscow.
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Over the weeks and months ahead, expect the Europeans to engage in frenzied rounds of diplomacy as they pledge to increase their military spending and tighten their security coordination.
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The Munich Security Conference, Europe’s top yearly get-together, has produced two dates that will remain forever etched in the continent’s history.
The first date came in 2007, when Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, invited to address the conference, stunned the audience with a stridently aggressive speech in which he foreshadowed the Russian invasion of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as the broader showdown now unfolding between his country and the West.
