Brussels
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It took Donald Trump six days to build a new world. On the seventh, his erstwhile allies in Europe could have been forgiven for hoping that he would rest.
Since he threatened tariffs to seize Greenland last Saturday, Trump’s taboo-shattering behavior has left the West in no doubt that the norms of the old world order have been swept aside – “a rupture, not a transition,” in the stark words of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In its place: a more brutal, more lawless arena, where the loudest and strongest wins and a rock of the old world – the seemingly unbreakable transatlantic trust – is no more.
As early as 2019, Trump…