Europe Is Finally Treating Its PTSD

In his acceptance speech for the prestigious Peace Prize of German book trade, historian Karl Schlögel said that Europeans have been “spoiled by times of relative peace.” With Russia waging war in Ukraine and a president in the White House who does not seem to care about Europe’s security, he said that Europeans must now “think everything through again from the beginning—a kind of stocktaking and examination by a generation that has been enormously lucky and is now finding it incredibly difficult to bid farewell to its preconceptions and to adjust to the war in Europe, with all that it…