Interestingly, people on twitter learned that it happened first, because google maps near border cities suddenly started to display traffic jams early in the morning.
[Link is in german] https://schmid.welt.de/2026/02/25/braucht-deutschland-einen-...
How would you approach preventing a nuclear armed state from invading their neighbor?
The only lever they (EU and member states) had was economic, there were zero diplomatic or military options. Russia is essentially a nuclear-armed mafia-owned gas station, so not buying NG would’ve helped a bits
Preventing them from invading doesn’t really seem possible once you account for nuclear weapons.
Europe also has nuclear weapons directly and indirectly. The uk, the us and france should have donated one too Kjiev!
I have zero sympathy for von der Leyen, by the way. The only thing that she's good at is failing upwards.
