Europe confronts harsh reality as Ukraine allies face relentless attacks

Europe confronts harsh reality as Ukraine allies face relentless attacks

When US President Donald Trump declared after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN General Assembly that a “total return of land lost to Russia” was possible, much of the West briefly exhaled. After years of stalemate, mounting war fatigue, and skepticism about Washington’s wavering role, this sounded-at least superficially-like a renewed American commitment. But beneath the rhetoric lay the same contradictions and uncertaint…