europinion.uk
Europe Must Look Beyond NATO and the EU to Defend Itself
For too long, Europe has slumbered under an American security blanket. Leaders have dozed, while threats have accumulated first on and then within the continent's borders. Now, Donald Trump's return to the White House threatens the rudest of awakenings. His first term saw NATO's foundations shaken by repeated disparagements and casual threats of funding withdrawal. His second may shatter the bloc entirely. The European Union, hamstrung by bureaucratic sclerosis and the absence of the United King