"Donald Trump's appearance in Davos this week was supposed to reassure. Instead, it exposed a reality that Europe has been slowly and reluctantly confronting since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: the United States, under its current leadership, can no longer be treated as a predictable or reliable security partner. The speech itself was chaotic even by Trumpian standards. In one breath, Trump appeared to suggest that NATO might not come to America's aid; in the next, he launched into a bizarre tirade about wind power."
"He repeatedly referred to Greenland as Iceland and, at one point, attempted to lecture a Davos audience by claiming that "if it wasn't for America, you'd all be speaking German", an extraordinary remark to make in Switzerland, where German is already one of the country's primary languages. These moments were not merely embarrassing gaffes. They were symptoms of something far more serious: a worldview that reduces alliances, shared sacrifice, and institutional stability to transactional theatrics."
Trump's Davos appearance exposed that the United States under its current leadership cannot be treated as a predictable or reliable security partner. The speech was chaotic: he suggested NATO might not come to America's aid, launched into a tirade about wind power, and repeatedly conflated Greenland with Iceland. He claimed "if it wasn't for America, you'd all be speaking German" in Switzerland. Those moments reflect a worldview that reduces alliances, shared sacrifice, and institutional stability to transactional theatrics and place volatility at the top of American power. European lawmakers blocked ratification of a U.S.-EU trade deal after Greenland and tariff threats, showing Brussels will not simply yield to Washington.
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