IS THE EUROPEAN UNION BREAKING UP BECAUSE OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE?

1. The word of the hour is "unity".
After the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops on 24 February 2022, the West demonstrated great political and military unity. There was a transatlantic closing of ranks with the USA. What Russian President Vladimir Putin called a "special military operation" was portrayed by the West as an attack on "elementary civilisational values" that must be opposed with all our might. Again and again, one could also read and hear that Putin had succeeded, probably against his intention, in uniting the West.