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At one point Washington voted with Moscow against a UN resolution that identified Russia as the "aggressor" in Russia's war against Ukraine.

For decades people here have been raised on a rejection of military might, acutely aware of Germany's past role as the aggressor in Europe.

With the phasing out of conscription in most European countries, the continent also relies on the around 100,000 battle-ready US troops stationed in Europe to help act as a deterrent against potential aggressors.

"It's the same Russia that's attacking Ukraine today, who is an aggressor, who is murdering civilians, who is bombing down civilian settlements," he told me.

Yet that appears to have been the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on two of the aggressor's neighbours to its west – Finland and Sweden.