Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is the author Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
“There’s a new sheriff in town,” declared US Vice President J.D. Vance at this year’s Munich Security Conference. With his boss, “Sheriff” Donald Trump, openly disparaging America’s longstanding security commitments and actively undermining European security, the United States can no longer be trusted, and it is up to Europe’s leaders to bolster the continent’s defense capacity – and fast.
