In his Nov. 18 opinion column in the City of London’s The Economist magazine, George Robertson, former U.K. Defense Secretary (1997-1999), NATO Secretary General (1999-2003), and active British policymaker since, chastised that “Russia is at war with us, why are we not defending our countries as if we were under attack?” Western support for Ukraine has only been defensive, “responding to warlike attacks with peacetime processes,” he complained.
With rhetorical flourish, he pronounced: “We need to recognize that either Mr. Putin is cowed, or we are.”
His demands for how “we” must put ourselves on a wartime footing are far from rhetorical, however. They include:
• Accelerate supplies of weapons and ammunition to the front line. More ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and other weapons and more training for Ukrainian forces.
