Europe Faces Most Difficult Moment in Bid to Avoid Split With US

The message couldn’t have been clearer. In a 33-page National Security Strategy signed by President Donald Trump, the White House said Europe risked being wiped away unless it changed its culture and politics.

For Britain’s Keir Starmer, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz, the timing of their key ally’s latest broadside — much in the vein of Vice President JD Vance’s infamous Munich address in February — was telling. It came just as Russia’s war in Ukraine enters a potentially decisive phase.