Putin is banking on a failure of political will in the weak west Timothy Garton Ash
The Russo-Ukrainian war is coming down to a race between the weakening political will of western democracies and the deteriorating military means of Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship. But this race will be a marathon, not a sprint. Sustaining that political will requires the kind of farsighted leadership that most democracies are missing. It calls for a recognition that our own countries are also, in some important sense, at war – and a corresponding politics of the long haul.
Is this what you hear when you turn on your television in the United States, Germany, Italy, Britain or France?
