“We woke in a different world today,” said Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday.
Indeed, we did.
Peace across Europe was shattered when Russia launched a full-scale attack on sovereign Ukraine, the most significant military action there in almost 80 years.
Nothing will be the same. Not for Europe. Not for the world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made plain his immediate goal: to oust the democratically elected Volodymyr Zelenskyy and install a puppet regime, just as he’s done in Georgia, Ukraine (2010-2014), Crimea and Belarus in his deranged effort to reconstruct his version of a new Soviet Union.