Europe has mounted a massive effort to arm and fund Ukraine. But it won’t be enough if the U.S. pulls the plug on its own aid.
; anemic weapons stockpiles across the continent that have been further depleted by the war; and shuttered factories and production lines only now gearing up to manufacture weapons Ukraine will need for a war likely to drag on.
The deepest impediment to European security leadership is political will, or rather the lack of it — a deficit starkly on display last winter when Chancellor Olaf Scholz for weeks on greenlighting German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks for Ukraine. Only when Biden moved first, by promising to send U.S.-made Abrams tanks, did Scholz give his own thumbs-up.— entail remarkable pivots. There remains a deep chasm between much of Western Europe, which covets eventual rapprochement with Russia, and many Eastern European nations whose Soviet-era subjugation left them with viscerally anti-Russian views.
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