'Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is Europe’s 9/11,' writes David Burns.
So much has happened so quickly. Russia’s military has underperformed, Ukraine’s military has over-performed, the European Union has dusted off its never-before used mutual defense treaty, Germany is rearming, NATO has been brought back from the near-dead, the United States is leading with a consultative model that is a template for future cooperation with allies and the Chinese don’t know which way to jump.
The sacrifices of Ukraine’s soldiers and citizens have added to the world’s vanishingly limited stock of genuine examples of a people fighting more or less alone for their freedom from tyranny. And like the British who, in 1940, also fought on alone, if Ukraine lasts a thousand years, people will also say, “This was their finest hour.” Their nation’s fighting spirit is captured in five words: “Russian warship, go f*** yourself.
And yet we have a clear stake in the war’s outcome: nothing less than the survival of liberal democracy, because if Putin wins in Ukraine, then the West’s mutual defense is called into question everywhere. It’s deeply unfair that Ukrainians must fight this war alone. It will lose the war. Because the blitzkrieg attack aimed at decapitating Ukraine’s leadership and taking Kyiv failed, and because Russia lacks the manpower and resources to conquer and pacify all of Ukraine, it has already lost the war.
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