For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.
When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.

For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.
When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.