Europe’s right finds excuses for the Kremlin

Comment feature in which author says the biggest supporters of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev as they shape a new authoritarianism and try to alter Europe’s frontiers by force are leaders of the centre-right in Western Europe. He concludes that, as a result, it will be Washington’s duty and responsibility to decide, alone and without a clear, united European line, how the democratic world should respond to today’s Russia.