Europe’s Vain Hopes of Imperial Grandeur

There are decades when weeks happen and weeks when decades happen, goes an aphorism misattributed to Vladimir Lenin. The fortnight between J. D. Vance’s broadside against Europe at the Munich Security Conference, and Vance and Donald Trump’s vicious upbraiding of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office feels more like the latter. Washington threatens to light a bonfire [...]