Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin highlighted on Friday Europe's capabilities in the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, stating bluntly that "we're not strong enough" to stand up to Moscow alone.
"I must be very honest, brutally honest with you, Europe isn't strong enough right now. We would be in trouble without the United States," Marin told Australia’s Lowy Institute think tank.
The Prime Minister affirmed that Ukraine must be given "whatever it takes" to win the war, noting that the US had been pivotal in supplying Kyiv with the weapons, finance, and humanitarian aid necessary to blunt Russia's advance.
"We have to make sure that we are also building those capabilities when it comes to European defense, the European defense industry, and making sure that we could cope in different kinds of situations," she stressed.
In the same vein, she underlined that they should have listened to the Baltic and Polish allies much sooner.
"For a long time, Europe was building a strategy towards Russia to closen our economic ties, to buy energy from Russia... we thought that this would prevent a war,” Marin pointed out, adding that this approach had been "proven entirely wrong".
"They don't care about economic ties, they don't care about the sanctions. They don't care about any of that."
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