The New York Timescolumnist Thomas Friedman recently authored an interesting column in which he candidly acknowledged his surprise at the vehemence of Europe’s reaction to Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine.
According to Friedman, far from seeing it as a contained, regional conflict, Europe has experienced a grim awakening to the prospect of yet another ruthless, power-mad dictator setting his sights on their lands and lives, in a way that evokes nothing so much as the horrors of World War II.