The threat from Russia is not going away. Europe has to get serious about its own defence

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However Russia’s war in Ukraine ends, Europe is staring uncomfortably down the barrel of a decade of defence. A wounded, vengeful Russia will remain a threat as long as Vladimir Putin, or like-minded successors, are in power. There is no way back to the post-cold war security order, which was cracked by Moscow’s assault on Georgia in 2008, ruptured by its annexation of Crimea in 2014, and finally shattered by its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February last year. The end of Europe’s “holiday” from defence is going to be expensive and impose painful choices between guns and butter,...