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Once the Americans warned of the Russian threat. Now, it’s the Europeans’ turn
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The Europeans this past weekend talked with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky about new air defences and a joint venture to build drones at a new factory not far from Munich.
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David E. Sanger
MUNICH – Four years ago, US officials arrived at the Munich Security Conference armed with satellite photographs of massing Russian troops and intercepts of conversations among Russian generals, arguing that an invasion of Ukraine was imminent. Most senior European officials dismissed the evidence, declaring that Russian President Vladimir Putin was bluffing.
The war for Ukraine, which this week enters its fifth year, started a few days later.
