The Future of Europe - Boundless Optimism or Existential Dread?

Russia says it will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a move seen in the West as yet another attempt at intimidation. Putin’s announcement seems to contradict the Russia-China statement from last week on the non-proliferation of nuclear arms. Putin visited his counterpart Xi Jinping and reports state that both sides made progress but did not conclude all agreements worth $165 billion. Berlin and Brussels has struck a deal for allowing the use of combustion engines. In the second part of the podcast, Editor-in-Chief Wojciech Przybylski sits down with Dalibor Rohac (American Enterprise Institute) to discuss the future of Europe and his latest book Governing the EU in an Age of Division. Rohac argues that a new approach is needed to the question of what the future holds for European peace - a more flexible and creative approach which involves picking and choosing attributes of the European project that can be extended to the Ukrainian project now.