In their own ways, in dribs and drabs, the European countries have all chipped in to help Ukraine in their existential battle with the now openly imperialistic and genocidal Vladimir Putin and Russia. But with American aid now wantonly sidelined by MAGA madness in the US House of Representatives, the world and Europe are now at the moment of truth … Ukraine is in mortal danger. Next the Baltic States, Poland and who else? Russia has already pointedly made it clear that their next target is Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and her country of Estonia. She still stands resolute and has practically emptied out her nation’s relatively puny armory and sent it to Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission has managed to find a way around Viktor Orban and Hungary’s intransigence to get European funding to support Ukraine’s economy.
And yet the men in charge of Europe continue to talk, pontificate, vaticinate and otherwise dither while Ukraine burns. Into the breach steps Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark who without much fanfare has announced that her country will send all its artillery stockpile to Ukraine while telling all European countries to do the same. There is no time to waste. Her powerful message should resound all across Europe. And more importantly if it finds fertile ground, as I hope it will, among the other leadership of Europe, it will surely send a most powerful message to Vladimir Putin It’s on. Bring it!
History recounts the pantheon of great women who have stood up to confront tyranny. May Mette Frederiksen, Kaja Kallas, Ursula von der Leyen and others be so accounted. Good on ya, ladies.