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Paul Krugman makes it clear: It's up to Europe now [1]
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Date: 2025-03-03
Paul Krugman — to whom I’ve already devoted lots of words to today — has a short post today at Substack —
It’s Up to Europe Now
Can Europe rise to the occasion?
Krugman goes back to a time when Portugal was emerging from a long period of dictatorship into a fledgling democracy, and for assorted reasons the United State could not/was not trusted to nurture its turn to democracy. Europe stepped up.
So here we are today:
..The reason I bring up this old history is that we have once again reached a moment when the future of democracy depends on Europe rising to the occasion. Of course, the situation now is far more fraught than it was that long-ago summer. This time the democracy at risk is Ukraine, which is fighting for its life against Russian aggression. And the reason America won’t be there for a democracy in danger isn’t fear of political blowback: it’s the fact that the president of the United States has made it clear that he’s anti-democracy, admires Vladimir Putin and wants Russian aggression to succeed. So it’s now up to European nations to rescue Ukraine.
Krugman goes on to list reasons why Europe can fully take up the burden and also resist Trump’s inevitable attempts to intimidate it into submission. Krugman concludes with this:
Like tens of millions of Americans, I hate the fact that we need to appeal to foreign leaders to do the right thing, because we know that our own president won’t. But this is Europe’s moment, and we can only hope that the continent’s leaders seize it.
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