March 17, 2022 2:35 pm

Send Out the Clowns

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made clear that the age of politics-as-entertainment is coming rapidly to a close.

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, and Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 15, 2022.

Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not the cause of the political realignment currently under way in both Europe and the United States, but it has accelerated some aspects of that realignment and laid bare others.

Of course, there are winners and losers.