Zachary Paikin is a research fellow in the Grand Strategy program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. It’s been more than six years since the EU’s former High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell declared the bloc must learn to speak the “language of power.” And yet, Europe’s response to today’s tectonic geopolitical shifts suggests little in the way of learning. The bloc’s reaction to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was to pursue a