Playbook: “For doomster-minded NATO leaders, the redeployment of U.S. troops within the alliance might feel like a win at this point. But in truth, the damage is done. NATO is essentially a confidence trick — it’s worked for 80 years because successive Russian leaders have been left with no doubt that an attack on a single member in Europe would be treated as an attack on America. That certainty is gone, regardless of what Trump does next.”
“Some on the left talk wistfully about rebuilding old alliances once a Democrat regains the White House, but Europe is moving on. It would appear a tall task for a future Democratic or traditionally minded Republican president, elected on a four-year term, to convince a traumatized continent that the old America is back. U.S. politics is not about to become less volatile. European leaders are increasingly convinced they must build a solo future.”
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