In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said triumphantly that ‘if Putin was seeking to divide the EU, to weaken Nato, and to break the international community, he has achieved the exact opposite.’
A month later, Vladimir Putin may be struggling on Ukraine’s battlefields but he has been on a winning streak in European politics.
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Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC.
Ivana Stradner is an advisor to the Barish Center for Media Integrity at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington DC.
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