Burns: Give Arms to Ukraine, More NATO Cover to Baltics—and Leadership for Europe
President Barack Obama has given space for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead recently in the Western response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But it’s now time for the US president to take the reins back, writes former Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns.The evidence is in the results of the cease-fire deal that Chancellor Merkel led in negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin promptly violated this second truce, as he did the first one, five months earlier. Again, he used the “cease-fire” as cover to seize new …read more
Source: Atlantic Council
