I'm John Bhatu with my colleague Judy Dempsey. She's in Berlin, she's the editor

chief of Strategic Europe. I urge you all to sign up because Europe's problems are America's problems.

While we're in a presidential contest there's no time to make one thing stop and the other things start.

They're simultaneous. Russia right now is

threatening to unleash the whirlwind because it's been invaded for the first time to my

knowledge since 1941.

However, what we're looking at is a story that Ukraine has launched.

It is presumptive of me to say that the US knew this was coming and help build up the Ukraine forces after crying manpower and weapon shortages for months.

Suddenly Ukraine has first-rate equipment rolling into Russia, now controlling

what the paper says is a thousand square miles. Vladimir Putin doesn't need to be embarrassed.

He's got an army that strikes back. Russia has a very good

reputation of winning ugly. Judy, is this a new threat to the European Union, this Ukrainian

invasion of Russia? Is this a continuation of Russia.

Is this a continuation of the threat?

Does this change the position of the major states, Germany, France and Britain to your understanding?

Does a change it, it's, there has been already big changes in London, Berlin and Paris,

and these two countries, particularly France and Britain, have fundamentally changed the view of Russia, even before 2022, when Russia undertook the second invasion and the large-scale invasion of Ukraine.

But the Europeans, these European leaders, the governments and it's the Dutch as well, it's the

Poles, it's the Baltic states well it's the Poles is the Baltic states not so much

the Italians or the Spaniards but those who strategically understand what is

happening they realize that rationally or irrationally, particularly irrationally,

Putin could strike back.

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