From: Haaretz December 19, 2024
A Politically Unstable Europe Is Ill-equipped to Deal With Trump 2.0

The continent may be on the verge of another defining moment in its postwar history depending on how it reconciles U.S. President-elect Donald Trump – a huge NATO critic – with Europe's endemic political weakness

1. Europe's largest and strongest countries are undergoing political turmoil and instability.
2. The European Union is weak on foreign and defense policy.
3. The NATO military alliance's future is threatened by an incoming U.S. president who is post-post-1945
4. Today, Europe is leaderless and, most critically, lacks a center of political gravity.