Can Europeans and Americans still speak of shared values? The longest-ever speech by a US president to a joint session of Congress doubling down on an America First vision of foreign policy that’s heavy on sticks, light on carrots. In the past critics of the U-S would dismiss talk of exporting democracy by pointing to Vietnam, Latin America and Iraq the velvet glove but the United States has also put its might behind international institutions for brokering peace and norms for doing business that the whole world could trust. Globalization without a US backstop has consequences. Has the US become a nationalist illiberal democracy or does it all return to normal when next year’s midterm elections roll around? Ukraine can’t wait that long.
Europe finds itself having to rewrite its entire security architecture on the fly. Here you see Emmanuel Macron trying to convince one of Donald Trump’s only kindred spirits on this continent, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, this ahead of an EU summit that’s staring at the sudden end of the post-1945 order. Why did allies not see this moment coming?
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