Many commentators say Ukraine's war has united Europe as hasn't been seen in years, but are they right?
A banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin next to the Moscow embassy in Riga, Latvia
The action Western allies take together now will fundamentally affect Europeans' sense of self and safety for years to come. Key to the decision being applauded in the EU and further afield is that this is not a Germany newly flexing nationalist muscles. "It's tragic it took a war like this, but now we Germans have woken up with a bang!" insists Marie Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, who heads the German parliament's Defence Committee.'We Germans have woken up with a bang!' said the chairwoman of the German parliament's Defence Committee
"We are living a new reality. For us Latvians the security environment is now gone. We spent 20 years in Iraq, in Afghanistan. Now our main focus is here. How do we defend our freedom and our country?" Latvia's Prime Minister, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, insists the West has to accept that "Putin is not like us". France and German leaders famously went on diplomatic visits to Moscow earlier this year, trying to dissuade President Putin from attacking Ukraine.
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