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Putin is laughing at Europe
The Observer
|December 07, 2025
The rot set in with Brexit. It's time for a new start
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Slowly but surely, Ukraine is losing territory on its eastern front. Russia is taking it. Donald Trump is not helping. His administration is promoting a list of preconditions for peace talks which could have been drafted in Moscow. That is a sad betrayal of American values, but nearly four years into this war, the worst failures of statecraft and strategy are Europe's.
Ukraine has been the toughest test of Europe's ability to function as a unit in its own interests since the Soviet collapse. In 2013 there was a chance to bind Kyiv into an association agreement with the EU, but Brussels blew it. A desultory loan offer did not come close to the €20bn Ukraine needed to modernise, or to Russia's promise of cheap gas.
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