The Kremlin is waging a campaign of sabotage and subversion against Ukraine’s allies in the West

Perceived wisdom has it that the longer a war goes on, the less enthusiastic a public becomes for continuing the conflict. After all, it is ordinary citizens who tend to bear the economic and human costs.

After three decades of perceived Western encroachment, Mr. Putin sought to strike back at the agent of Russia’s confinement, the United States. A blitzkrieg, he surely surmised, would put America in its place and give Russia the power to shape Europe’s destiny.

For decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin railed against the world that the United States built after the Cold War. In his account, an international order run by a single power would hinder Russia and produce needless conflict, especially when that power was as self-serving and duplicitous as America.

Russia is selling a story of inevitable victory and future profit. The facts tell a different story—of strain, attrition, and vulnerability.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the BBC in an interview this week that she doesn't give President Trump "credit" for getting European countries to increase defense spending to NATO levels.

There was a time when Munich really mattered. For a generation after the Cold War, the annual Munich Security Conference was a mecca for leaders of a Europe whole and free, a confab for the Western coalition that bestrode the globe.

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