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A view from Europe:

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Europe disdained US Republicans for years, now euro-elites are in a frenzy
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What shocks many in the world is that Europeans didn’t anticipate the quagmire they’re in. One of the first rules of geopolitics is that we must always plan against worst-case scenarios. After the Ukraine war broke out, all European strategic thinking was based on the best-case scenario of the United States being a totally reliable ally, despite having experienced Trump’s first term and his threats to pull out of the world’s biggest military alliance. For a continent that has produced strategic minds like Metternich, Talleyrand, and Kissinger, there has been almost infantile strategic thinking on Ukraine and its long-term consequences. ...And an incredible closing:
Trump is behaving like a rational geopolitical actor in putting what he perceives to be his country’s interests first. Europe shouldn’t just criticize Trump—instead, it should emulate him. It should carry out the currently unthinkable option: Declare that henceforth it will be a strategically autonomous actor on the world stage that will put its own interests first. Trump may finally show some respect for Europe if it does that....foreignpolicy.com - It’s Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable

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But now that Trump has proposed a peace deal that would end the fighting, and be maintained by stationing European but not U.S. troops along the ceasefire line.Naturally, countries like Germany, that have howled about Putin being the next Hitler who must be stopped at all costs, are now flinching from the idea of doing anything themselves to keep the peace.This is a continent of freeloaders.
For years, European leaders—especially Germany—have screamed that Putin is the biggest threat since Hitler and that Ukraine must be defended “at all costs.”But the moment President Trump proposes a real solution—one that actually requires Europe to take responsibility—they suddenly aren’t so interested.Germany in particular has been one of the loudest voices demanding endless U.S. funding for Ukraine, yet it won’t even meet its own NATO defense commitments, let alone step up to secure peace...
One of the things that I wanted to talk about today is, of course, our shared values.And, you know, it’s great to be back in Germany.As you heard earlier, I was here last year as United States senator.saw Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and joked that both of us last year had different jobs than we have now.But now it’s time for all of our countries, for all of us who have been fortunate enough to be given political power by our respective peoples, to use it wisely to improve their lives...