Would a future Trump presidency represent a threat or an opportunity for Europe? Neither, as I argue in my latest UnHerd column. The notion that Trump would pull the US out of NATO is ridiculous. But even if he were to do so, it wouldn’t make much of a difference considering that Europe’s political elites have internalised America’s geopolitical strategy — have been NATO-ised, one might say — to such an extent that today they are even more Russophobic than their American counterparts. The result is that a “European NATO” would arguably be even more bent on antagonising relations with Russia than the current US-led Alliance is.
Thomas Fazi 