How willing is the coalition of the willing? When it was first convened jointly by the UK and France last March, it was described by Sir Keir Starmer as a “once-in-a-generation moment” for European security. It was and is, in truth, an attempt to rebuild the global Western alliance without the United States.
At that stage, the Trump administration had already given notice that it was stepping back from the Pax Americana established when Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941.
