Europe Trump

For nearly eight decades, the transatlantic alliance has been one of the defining pillars of the international order. The United States underwrote Europe’s security, financed the bulk of NATO’s military capabilities, extended its nuclear umbrella across the continent, and ensured that no hostile power could again dominate Europe. That arrangement survived the Cold War, adapted to the collapse of the Soviet Union, weathered crises in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Libya, and was dramatically reinvigorated after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.