BRUSSELS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved in days what remained out of the grasp of the European Union for many years and decades. The 27-nation bloc agreed to jointly buy and send weapons to a war zone and restored trans-Atlantic unity. Putin previously could sit back and relish in unseemly scenes of Western disunity. These ranged from Brexit, Hungary’s long-standing antipathy towards its EU headquarters and the rift created by former President Donald Trump that has far from fully healed under under Joe Biden. Within days all changed.
One Putin move and behold: West’s unity tightens overnight
