Last July, I summarised the beliefs of Nato about Russia's willingness to fight on.
"No one in their right minds in Moscow will want to use force to mess with borders in Europe: that means ripping up the whole post-Cold War moral and political settlement that has benefited everyone enormously. Once that starts to unravel, how to stop a slump straight back to 1930s-style madness?"
Well, here we are. Moscow is using force to carve away from Kiev’s control steady slices of its Eastern territory. What is Europe going to do about it?
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