Let’s be clear about this. The war did not start in 2022, as some people still think. It started in 2014. The world hesitated. It kept trading with Putin. It hoped the problem would stay contained. Or go away. It didn’t. History has its own sense of irony. These days, in Brussels, Ukraine has moved decisively closer to its future in the European Union. The EU has now provided Ukraine with the full set of benchmarks for the last three negotiation clusters for EU accession. These are one on