European embarrassment was captured in a characteristic way in Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union speech on 16 September. The Ukrainian War has entered a phase in which the initial expectations of a decisive reversal of the battlefield relations have given way to the realization of a much more difficult reality. Occasional successes in local Ukrainian counterattacks continue to create reversals at individual points on the front, but they …
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European embarrassment was captured in a characteristic way in Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union speech on 16 September. The Ukrainian War has entered a phase in which the initial expectations of a decisive reversal of the battlefield relations have given way to the realization of a much more difficult reality. Occasional successes in local Ukrainian counterattacks continue to create reversals at individual points on the front, but they …