A Quasi-existential Threat: Can European public opinion withstand the challenge of direct Russian aggression?
European perceptions of the war in Ukraine have changed significantly over the past eighteen months. As a result, the conflict is now widely viewed as a matter of European security and, to a considerable extent, as an existential challenge for Europe itself. Paradoxically, this shift has been driven in part by the sharp deterioration in relations between Europe and the United States.