What a week. Vladimir Lenin once wrote that there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen. This can surely be applied to what is happening in Europe. Following US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s astonishing Oval Office meeting, the major European powers organised a summit within days, which was held in London. The usual niceties about supporting Ukraine were uttered. However, the real feeling among people at the meeting was that this was a truly seismic rupture in the Atlantic alliance.  European leaders, including the UK’s, are now under the distinct…

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