The partnership between Europe and the United States will survive Donald Trump’s performance at NATO headquarters last week.
The U.S. president’s brusque behavior and intemperate words may have prompted Angela Merkel to declare that “the times in which [Europe] could rely fully on others is over to some extent.†But the usually unflappable German chancellor knows that the transatlantic relationship is bigger than any one politician.
The real victim of Trump’s crudely transactional approach — and his assertion that European countries “owe massive amounts of money†to NATO — will be the country he was elected to serve.
Trump is right that European …read more
Source: European Voice
