Boris Johnson is fed up

Britain's former prime minister has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning that everyone should read, especially those governing Britain and other European countries.

"There is a real war on our Continent," says Mr Johnson. "It is a cruel and hideous war in which Vladimir Putin is increasingly torturing the Ukrainian population, bombing their electricity supply, so that women and children are freezing to death in temperatures of 15 below." And what is Europe doing about it? "Liberal Europeans clap their perfumed hankies to their noses and proclaim their revulsion at the boorishness of the Trump administration." (Most of my acquaintances do that, too.)

What Europe should do is unfreeze the $140 billion of Russian assets in its banks and hand it to Ukraine. It should station troops on Ukrainian soil. It should supply missiles that can hit Russia where it hurts. And above all, it should share the burden of NATO with the United States, which even now pays 70 percent of its cost. That would get Putin's attention -- and Mr Trump's attention, too.