When President Donald Trump’s second-term national security strategy arrived last Friday, it landed like a lead balloon across the Atlantic. Yet while the unnecessarily harsh vitriol toward Europe is an American problem, the persistent shock and confusion among Europeans anytime Trump and his team say anything damning is very much a European one. For the […]

The horrific terrorist attack on National Guard members Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe by a 29-year-old Afghan national has rightly prompted the Trump administration to order a re-vetting of all Afghan nationals who were admitted into the United States since 2021 and a reinvestigation of all immigrants from 19 nations with a high terrorism nexus, […]

President Donald Trump added insult to injury in an interview this week, calling European leaders “weak” and describing the continent as “decaying.” There was more: “I know the bad leaders,” the president said, “I know the smart ones. I know the stupid ones. You get some real stupid ones, too. But they’re not doing a […]

President Donald Trump‘s peace plan for Ukraine is music to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s ears. Trump may be sincere in his desire to end the bloodshed, but how wars end matters a great deal. By rewarding Putin’s aggression, Trump does two things that make peace far less likely in the future. First, he rewards aggression. […]