However, the enormity of the Ukraine crisis obviously radically transformed the security outlook of individual states, as also of the collective. It fast-forwarded strategic globalism, as Europe itself chose to define the impact and responses in that framework. The challenge nevertheless remains that a continent, which fervently believed in ‘change through trade’ and was supremely clinical about its interests, now seeks the world’s support and understanding. That it has cushioned itself from some of the sharper pains while advocating hard options for those much poorer makes this exercise much
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