As the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once observed: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Right now feels very much like the latter as a Trump administration showing increasingly far-right characteristics sets about aggressively remodelling US international relations.
Europe had its turn in the crosshairs last week. First Donald Trump effectively cut Ukraine and Europe out of peace talks with Russia before the US vice-president, JD Vance, delivered an excruciating speech in Munich that left the entire transatlantic alliance in turmoil.
