The Moscow massacre aggravates the threat posed by Putin. The West must prepare for the certain and real possibility that the Russian leader will use the massacre to escalate the war.
Russia's drift towards an iron personal dictatorship and the threat that Putin represents to the preservation of liberal democracy must lead allies to a decisive investment of resources. The slow decision-making of the EU, added to the blockage of aid by the US Congress, contrasts with the harshness of the recent attack launched by Moscow on the Ukrainian capital and Lviv.