When will Europe learn to defend itself?

PARIS/BERLIN — Thir­ty years after the hor­rors of the Balkan wars laid bare West­ern Europe’s inca­pac­i­ty to deal with con­flict on Euro­pean soil, Russia’s inva­sion of Ukraine is demon­strat­ing how lit­tle has changed. As Yugoslavia start­ed to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Lux­em­bour­gish For­eign Min­is­ter Jacques Poos to make the ill-fat­ed­­ly optimistic…