President Donald Trump is on a crusade to undermine
the multilateral institutions that the United States and Europe built
after 1945 – and there’s no question that he’s already eroding the trust
between Washington and its European allies.
Yet
the general outpourings of angst and indignation about the fate of the
transatlantic community are obscuring an intriguing possibility: that
the Trump phenomenon could actually prove to be good for the European
Union and NATO. Both organizations have long acknowledged their own need
for substantive reform – and then essentially waited for someone else
to goad them into action. Despite his own destructive tendencies, Trump
may well prove to be the catalyst they need.
Until
Trump came onto the scene, neither organization had to think or act
strategically. The transatlantic relationship was taken for granted, as
was the international rulebook. But now Trump is pushing European elites
out of their comfort zone, forcing them to think through their
security, defense and foreign policies.
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