From Across the Pond

Behind all the backslapping and bonhomie, it’s impossible to ignore the real concerns and fears that now fully penetrate the alliance.

While keeping the U.S. president onside will be important, erstwhile allies would do well to coordinate their response to Washington’s wholesale assault on its partners.

Given Tehran’s weakened state and Washington’s eagerness for a deal, success is possible. However, it’s more likely to resemble the 2015 one Trump abandoned.

Apparently, the U.S. military is for hire, even if there has been no request for its services. And if you want us — you have to pay.

If Washington is to continue to see enduring value in this historic alliance, it needs a true and more equal partnership.

In Trump’s world, it does little good to use the language of treaties or rules or laws. For Denmark and others to get their way, they’ll have to speak the language of power.

In a world less constrained by international norms and rules, and increasingly governed by sheer power, the strictures that long constrained nuclear proliferation are in danger of loosening — if not untangling altogether.

When the U.S. inaugurates Donald J. Trump as its 47th president, the country and world will be very different because of it.

A win for the former president would surely further galvanize the bloc’s populist parties and encourage their normalization — much as it did in the US.

This gap between Democrats and Republicans on foreign policy — and America’s role in the world — is one that’s been steadily evolving over the past decade. And it’s a shift that reflects a fundamental change in the Republican Party.

After decades of underinvestment and spending cuts to NATO, there remains much more to be done. But virtually all members now understand the urgency of the task at hand.

Like much the state of American politics itself, support for the alliance — though solid overall — is becoming increasingly polarized.

Despite its division, Cyprus is an island of stability in an increasingly turbulent part of the world, and it offers a platform for political, economic, humanitarian and military reach at Europe’s intersection with the Middle East.

Washington remains deeply anxious and more determined than ever to find an end to the escalatory pressures in the Levant.

The security of allies is at the heart of America’s security as well.

The French leader’s rhetorical bombs demonstrate a lack of seriousness —  they also undermine the Ukrainian cause.

Even if Biden is reelected, Europeans are aware that the era of strong transatlantic presidents may be coming to an end.

The only question is whether Berlin will step up, leading others in Europe and beyond to begin filling the void a retreating America threatens to leave behind.

Whether a reelected Trump would actually withdraw from the alliance as many fear is beside the point.

Developments abroad in the first weeks of the new year may pose a significant challenge to the US president’s electoral prospects.

By providing Kyiv with tangible security guarantees, Moscow would be made to understand it will never determine Ukraine’s future.

Biden and his senior national security aides have been urging restraint in daily, sometimes hourly, phone calls with their Israeli counterparts.