‘Dear friends, we should not degrade ourselves to secondary roles, not when we have a chance to be a great power together. We should not accept that Europe is just a salad of small and middle powers, seasoned with enemies of Europe.’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy, World Economic Forum, Davos, 22 January 2026

Four years have passed. Ukraine still cries to Europe in her need.
And we’re still sympathetic as we watch our sister bleed:
old continent, so brave in word, so impotent in deed.