According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a think tank monitoring international aid, Estonia has donated 220m euros to Ukraine since February 24, the largest per capita donor. Lithuania and Poland are not far behind. Sweden and Finland have applied for NATO membership. Help is not a competition, of course, but deeds speak louder than words, especially when it comes to promised arms deliveries, as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is forced to acknowledge. Mr. Scholz and Emmanuel Macron, the French president, have been insulted for continuing to talk to Putin, even when the horrors of Bucha and Irpin came to light. They argue that there must always be room for diplomacy, that the jaw is better than war. If ever it made sense, after Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the swarms of “green men” in eastern Ukraine, this point has certainly reached now that Putin has shown his true colors with such ignorance.
