Tag: Europe

Europeans do not have a choice. They have to get along with both Xi’s China and Trump’s America.

Without the U.S., the alpha dog that pulls everyone together in a crisis would not exist.

Poland would likely be among the first affected if Russia were to attack the Baltic countries — a scenario that cannot be dismissed.

European autonomy - military, technological, economic, and financial - is beginning to take shape as Europe hedges against current and future fluctuations in [U.S.] policy.

U.S. fundamental interest in NATO has remained unchanged since its founding in 1949 — even under Donald Trump.

[Trump] has started a war he cannot win and doesn't know how to end. But should Europe help him?

Sending a few European warships wouldn’t rescue the U.S. from the precarious position the advice-ignoring egomaniac Trump has put it in.

[A]lliances are not only sustained by institutions, but also by a shared perception of what is worth defending and who is willing to do it.

It was only natural that the egomaniac-in-chief in the White House would see no need to get his allies on board with the campaign, not even diplomatically.

Where is all this heading? What is the exit strategy? The answers to these questions are vague.

The long farewell to international law has begun. It is no longer the common currency of the postwar order.