Europe feels more pre-war than post-war. Euro states are increasing their war spending and mothers worry that their sons will be conscripted. This must be how 1913 and 1938 felt.

Catastrophe needs complacency, good people doing nothing.

The choice for the West is not between war and peace. It is between tough prevention now and a passive, handwringing slide into global war.

Josie argues that failure to defeat Russia now could spiral into confrontation with Nato, and inevitably, a third world war.