The EU is wrestling with a dilemma: to allow Russians continued access to Europe, letting them escape consequences of Putin’s war, or to cut them off, and risk losing them as potential allies in Russia.
President Joe Biden’s refusal to endorse the restriction of Russian tourist travel in the West reflects a tactical and moral disagreement about how to turn Russia’s citizenry against the war in Ukraine.
Pledging weapons to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion is one thing, but getting them into the hands of fighters will require outwitting Russian spies and saboteurs along a perilous spy chain in which countless lives, and possibly a nation s future, hang in the balance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, having raised the specter of a major military assault in an apparent bid to secure diplomatic concessions from Ukraine and NATO, might just have blinked.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, having raised the specter of a major military assault in an apparent bid to secure diplomatic concessions from Ukraine and NATO, might just have blinked.