external In the Media March 11, 2026 Olena Lennon, a practitioner-in-residence in national security, explains that the debate over liquidating seized Russian central bank assets held within the EU’s financial system boiled down to if the EU should, 'stop treating Russia as a legitimate state that has legal rights to have their assets protected in European banks.' https://thepolitic.org/the-decline-of-trans-atlantic-defense-europes-reckoning-with-the-trump-administration/ lena-lennon news-all news-in-the-media year-2026 month-march name-olena-lennonname-college-lee-college