Europe must find a way to help fund the fight against Putin – for its own sake

Europe has plotted an elegant decline that suits the needs of its ageing population, and the Ukraine war cannot be allowed to interfere with that plan. That is how it seems when EU countries consider circumventing the financial rulebook to offer Ukraine what it needs to overcome waves of drones and break the deadlock on its eastern front. Leaders in Europe's capitals, who understandably want to be left alone to tackle mundane, domestic tasks, find themselves confronted by a defining moment in post-second-world-war history. Britain - as much a part of Europe as it was in 1939 - stands with…