Ukraine is fighting for a way of life as much as for its territory
Ukraine’s policy of EU integration involves a slow but steady march towards a rules-based, competitive market economy, the opposite of Russia’s capricious top-down model.
United States President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw was thickly coated in the kind of idealistic rhetoric many Western Europeans discreetly roll their eyes at.
Of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said: “He thought autocrats like himself were tough and leaders of democracies were soft ... and then, he met the iron will of America and the nations everywhere that refused to accept a world governed by fear and force.”
