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It is time for an armed forces of Europe. This was the key message from Ukraine's president at a major security conference in Munich that has brutally exposed European irrelevance when the US is not onside. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said such a force would not replace the transatlantic NATO alliance, but it would instead ensure that Europe is as strong as Washington - and taken seriously by friends and foes once again. "We must build the armed forces of Europe so that Europe's future depends only on Europeans and decisions about Europe are made in Europe," he said, speaking on the...