Updated: Soft is out! Putin, Trump force EU to harden its defense

PABRADE, Lithuania — Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite gazed imperiously over snow-covered woodlands, the stage for NATO’s “Iron Sword” exercise. One of the European Union’s toughest leaders — and a karate black belt to boot — she knows that power these days needs real military hardware to back it up. With an increasingly bellicose Russia on […]