Following Washington’s recent attempt to effectively redraw the map of Europe, the continent’s leaders are saying the quiet part out loud to US President Donald Trump.
Despite its proclaimed focus on domestic affairs, Mr Trump’s “America First” administration has a lot to say about Europe’s future, prompting many to ask why it is so deeply enmeshed in the continent’s politics.
Its overreach in the first weeks of this year has even spurred the nationalist right – which should be both an ally of, and nurtured by, Mr Trump – to push back. From the Sweden Democrats to Germany’s AfD to Britain’s Nigel Farage, the US President has been under fire from his ideological allies on this side of the Atlantic.
Is this a rupture, and is it the state of things to come?
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