A tectonic shift in Europe to a more assertive posture suggests a growing realization that Russia's aggressions are as much a danger to Europe's future as it is to Ukraine.
, and they continue to resist Russian efforts to take Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city.
Conversely, if Putin is not stopped, his armies will have moved that much closer to the most exposed NATO members, once "captive nations" of the Soviet bloc, who are now members of the European Union: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. There's a gathering consensus,Perhaps it now and again takes a brave people like the Ukrainians to remind us of the freedoms we too often take for granted.
One after the other, they spoke with the passion of individuals who understood they were on the front lines of freedom, appealing to their European and American colleagues to defend the Ukrainian democracy they had inspired.