European officials are awakening to a reality that Donald Trump has long underscored: the US no longer wants to be the primary guarantor of security for either Ukraine or the continent as a whole.
For anyone who missed that message, Pete Hegseth, US defence secretary, rammed it home last week in a speech that left many Europeans aghast, in which he warned partners not to assume the US military’s presence in Europe would be “forever”.
“What Hegseth said is profoundly uncomfortable,” Jack Watling, senior fellow at London’s Royal United Services think-tank, said. “But if it forces Europe to get its act together — then this could be the proverbial kick in the unmentionables that we need.”
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