VSo here we are back in Europe during the war. “It happened in an hour, and we aged a hundred years,” wrote the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova at the start of the First World War. History seems, in any case, to have taken the wrong century.
Ukraine is already bleeding. Europe, it seems petrified, powerless. Not a single one of his soldiers will die for Kiev. Anyway, where is the European army? We are witnessing the tragedy of the balcony. But we are very concerned. Europe is morally trampled. Putin’s war in Ukraine poses for her this existential question: would it be insignificant? There is an incredible paradox here: Europe, whatever one thinks of it, is prosperous and rivals, in terms of GDP, America and China. Russia, de…
Illustration: dusault for “the point”
