One Putin move and behold: West’s unity tightens overnight

Published February 28, 2022 10:04 AM

By RAF CASERT
Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved in days what remained out of the grasp of the European Union for many years and decades. The 27-nation bloc agreed to jointly buy and send weapons to a war zone and restored trans-Atlantic unity. Putin previously could sit back and relish in unseemly scenes of Western disunity. These ranged from Brexit, Hungary’s long-standing antipathy towards its EU headquarters and the rift created by former President Donald Trump that has far from fully healed under under Joe Biden. Within days all changed.

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