The Guardian view on Europe’s duty to Ukraine: solidarity must not waver in the age of Trump | Editorial
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Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:45:50 +0200
Kyiv must be given the military and financial means to resist any attempt to force an unjust peaceIn the aftermath of 9/11, the neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan published an influential book titled Of Paradise and Power America and Europe in the New World Order.
The gist of the argument was that though peaceloving Europeans prided themselves on upholding the values of a rulesbased international system, they largely relied on US military might to deal with the rogue states intent on undermining it.As the catastrophic consequences of George W Bushs illegal war in Iraq subsequently illustrated, the thesis was flawed.
Costing hundreds of thousands of lives, the US war on terror delivered only bloody mayhem in the Middle East.
But Mr Kagans analysis captured something true about a de facto hard power/soft power division of responsibilities in the west.
Two decades on, the future of Ukraine may depend on how a reconfiguration of that relationship plays out in a new new world order.
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