Can Europe’s artists embrace the idea of armed pacifism?

And yet “no to militarisation” still feels like an easy answer to a difficult question, because the pacifist consensus that Europe has established since the time of the cold war has relied on US security guarantees and Russian fossil fuels – trade-offs that have started to look increasingly unwise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and since Trump’s threats of aggression against Greenland

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/28/this-is-europe-european-film-awards-culture-war-pacifism
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