Europe Has Willed Itself to Power

How the continent earned a seat at the table that will decide Ukraine’s fate.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine where they held a meeting of the so-called "coalition of the willing"on May 10, 2025 in Kyiv. August 29, 2025, 10:22 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

In the beginning, for post-Cold War Europe, was Dayton, Ohio. The breakup of Yugoslavia had generated Europe’s first geopolitical crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many European countries had a vested interest in ending the conflicts that had bubbled up in the Balkans. Yet they

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