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And in its immediate reaction to the menace coming from east, the EU has shown a unity and resolve many-perhaps including Putin-did not expect. Most fundamentally, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed the EU to exercise a proactive role at regional and global levels, thus testing its ability to implement the ‘ strategic autonomy’ it has been advocating for a long time.
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Hence the reflection on how to end the energy and technological dependencies that bind Europe to Russia, the offer of substantial support to democracy in countries threatened by its expansionism and the defence of the resilience of our societies from Russian interference through disinformation and cyber assaults. The traditionally co-operative approach is giving way to a sort of containment strategy, which will last for the foreseeable future. This has led the union to rethink radically its relations with Russia. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is promoting an autocratic-state model in the European neighbourhood, in contrast to the democratic polity towards which countries such as Ukraine and Georgia have been striving-the value system on which the EU is founded and which it seeks to project. The aggression also entails a systemic element. Moscow attacked Kiev with explicitly imperialist aims, with a view to restoring what it considers its rightful ‘sphere of influence’ in the European neighbourhood, thus implicitly threatening other European countries (including EU members). The war in Ukraine represents the greatest geopolitical challenge facing the European Union. Europeans have quite enough collective memory of totalitarianism not to want to repeat that shameful history (VILTVART/)