Ukraine Invasion Marks an Era’s End

William Galston: “Against this back­drop, the Russ­ian in­va­sion of Ukraine should trig­ger a cri­sis of Eu­ropean iden­tity. If force is a per­ma­nent fea­ture of in­ternational re­la­tions, the Eu­ropean Union must ei­ther take more re­spon­si­bil­ity for its own de­fense or ad­mit that it has sub­con­tracted this job to the U.S. in­def­i­nitely, along with some of the EU’s strate­gic in­de­pen­dence.”