This is The Guardian.

Today, the EU arms up like never before, but will it be enough to deter Russia?

You know that scene in the Roadrunner cartoons, when the coyote chases the roadrunner right off a cliff, but he doesn't immediately realize it?

Europe, over the past few weeks, is the coyote.

It's looking down and realizing the US, which is, I guess, the ground in this metaphor,

is no longer willing to be the foundation of European security. Europe has no way to defend itself

alone, and it's a long way down. That realization has kicked off a frenzy of announcements these past few days. millions of euros to rearm a Europe. As the continent scrambles to re-write constitutions nuclear to our

boys and gather together under a nuclear rules, and gather together under a

nuclear umbrella, to take on military threats, whether they're coming from Moscow or maybe one

day from Washington.

From The Guardian, I'm Michael Safi.

Today in focus, can the EU defend its people alone?

John Henley, we've been watching events in the US and Ukraine with a lot of alarm over the past few weeks.

I'm wondering what the implications might be for Europe. You're the Guardian's Europe

correspondent. You talk to EU leaders and policy makers all the time. What are they thinking in this

moment? I mean, people are really grasping for superlatives to describe this moment. You know,

it's been called the EU's Darwinian moment. It's been called the EU's

five minutes to midnight moment. Wow. And I think all these terms are pretty much justified because

we're really looking at something quite extraordinary, which is a fundamental shift in the kind of underpinnings of the transatlantic

alliance that has existed since the end of the Second World War. For the past 80 years,

Europe has existed and united and grown and prospered under a security umbrella offered by the United States. And,

you know, the US from being a reliable partner has become first an unreliable partner and then

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