One day Europeans may thank Donald Trump for forcing them to do what they should have done long ago: reassert their own military and technological independence. For years, Europe’s strategic stance has been to hope for the best and prepare for the best. But the US president’s message could not have been blunter in Davos this week: Europe must now prepare for the worst. Trump may have backed off military action against Greenland and punitive tariffs against its European supporters, but his mocking antipathy towards Europe was overpowering. It is way beyond time for Europe to absorb that message, rip up eight decades of dependency and go it alone wherever it can.
有朝一日，欧洲人也许会感谢唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)迫使他们去做早就该做的事情：重新确立自身在军事和技术上的独立性。多年来，欧洲的战略姿态一直是“寄希望于最佳情景，并且为最佳情景做准备”。但美国总统本周在达沃斯发出的信息再直白不过：欧洲现在必须为最糟糕的情景做准备。特朗普或许收回了对格陵兰采取军事行动、对支持格陵兰的欧洲国家征收惩罚性关税的威胁，但他对欧洲的嘲讽和反感让人受不了。欧洲早该领悟这一信息，摆脱80年来的依赖，在其做得到的地方走向自立。