ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump and European leaders broke up this week. Or, at the very least, the longtime members of the trans-Atlantic alliance are taking a break.
The American diplomat in chief spent two days at a global summit in Switzerland ushering in a new U.S. foreign policy, one based more on individual transactions and less on decades-old alliances.
Trump and some of his top aides made clear in Davos during the World Economic Forum that the his administration sees far less value than his predecessors in standing shoulder to shoulder with Europe.