While European leaders want to preserve the American security umbrella without subscribing to Trump’s ideological project, he demands that they adhere to a MAGA-fied global order yet offers little in return.
Trump, grandson of a German immigrant, is particularly peeved at an independent South Africa, which was the worst example of a Western supremacist-cum-colonial mindset.
The question is how many countries around the world has North Korea invaded and then maimed and killed its people? This is a far cry from America or even Japan, which the USA is now claiming to be defending by stationing its forces in a country it once nuked into submission.