The presidency of Donald Trump is merely accentuating the gradual loss of interest by the United States in the European Union and Europe that had already begun with the end of the Cold War and accelerated with the 9/11 terrorist attacks and subsequent American-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Although the European Union remains the largest trading partner of the United States with an annual trade volume of $699 billion and with almost 80,000 U.S. military personnel still stationed in Europe, the focus of Washington, after a decade-long interlude in the Middle East, has shifted to the Asia-Pacific region. This …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
