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Europe faces a moment of reckoning as U.S. support wanes. To sustain Ukraine and defend its own sovereignty, Europe must overcome internal divisions, invest seriously in its own capabilities, and prove it has the collective will to stand without America.

Russia’s shadow fleet of hundreds of aging, uninsured tankers is a strategic and environmental hazard. Countering it requires modern “commerce raiding”—using open-source intelligence, lawfare, and sanctions to disrupt maritime trade, not direct military confrontation, to cripple the Kremlin’s war economy.