Nathan Pinkoski writes: While the Trump administration has indeed taken a harder line on Europe than the Biden administration had done, its actions should be understood as a recognition of a fundamental reality: Brussels does not align with American interests. On online speech and AI, on the NGO complex and monetary policy, the European Union acts as a strategic rival to the United States. That is, after all, what it was designed to do…
Trump is right to confront Brussels. The European Union is a tottering 37-year-old experiment. It never brought the economic or political benefits its architects promised. But its bureaucrats were very good at wresting advantages from Washington while consolidating their grip over the continent. Now, more parties and political figures in Europe are willing to challenge Brussels and recover lost freedoms. They need help. The prospects for forming new European alliances have never been greater, if America is willing to bury the cadaver of the “transatlantic relationship.”
