𝐕𝐃𝐇 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄: 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝟕𝟎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 — 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐄 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐍𝐎𝐖

Victor Davis Hanson laid out the case President Trump has been making to Europe on Ukraine, and it's harder to argue with than the panic headlines suggest. - M.A. Rothman
Europe's position, as Hanson frames it, is that a Russia that swallows Ukraine 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 next — an 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 to the continent even though America sits 4,000 miles away. Fair enough, Hanson says...

Hanson's broader point: deterrence isn't charity. 

It's a shared military-industrial muscle Europe let atrophy for three decades after the Cold War ended, assuming America would always backstop the bill. 

• 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤.
• 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 
• 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐭.