Geopolitics: The Two Faces of Europe: Antifascist by Day, Lackey by Night .
Europe has spent three years wrapping itself in the Ukrainian flag. It has sanctioned oligarchs, funded artillery shells, cheered ICC arrest warrants, and lectured the Global South on the sacred inviolability of international law. European leaders have stood at podiums from Brussels to Kyiv invoking the ghosts of 1938, warning gravely that appeasement is how democracies die. It is a powerful performance. The problem is that it is, increasingly, exactly that — a performance, staged for a domestic audience, dissolving the moment the script demands real courage.