The EU’s united response to the war may not last long with Viktor Orbán around. We must hope he’s not joined by Marine Le Pen, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
, as well as its recent slowness in tackling dirty money, suspecting the latter is, as one puts it, “a return on the investment Moscow made in British politics”. True, Britain has not hesitated to arm Ukraine, but to some sceptical European eyes, that looks a bit like the Orbán or Le Pen manoeuvres: hasty efforts at belated detoxification.All of which is perhaps small beer compared with the big one, the most powerful western friend Vladimir Putin ever had: Donald Trump.
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