vulnerable as perhaps never before

Europe is arguably going through its most challenging geopolitical inflection point in decades. First, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and now US President Donald Trump’s controversial approach to settling the conflict have upended the already fragile European security order that has kept the continent largely at peace for the past 80 years. In this fast-shifting geopolitical context, a disoriented Europe feels vulnerable as perhaps never before. This paper argues that faced with a White House whose request is no longer that Europe just ‘steps up’ but also that it steps aside on existential issues such สล็อต