Why the US is turning its back on Western Europe and looking to Russia A year ago, if someone had told me that the United States would pressure Ukraine into paying reparations, demand that Russia no longer be called an ‘aggressor’, float the idea of annexing Canada, and chide Western Europe for its lack of democracy – I would have laughed it off. Yet here we are, in February 2025, and what once seemed absurd has become reality. It is no exaggeration to say that we are witnessing perhaps the