U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently attended the Munich Security conference—more politely (than J.D. Vance at last year’s conference) criticizing the Europeans using right-wing nationalist buzz words—and then visited two of the most pro-Russian countries of the NATO alliance, Hungary and Slovakia. This whiff of MAGA foreign policy came after the wake-up jolt the Europeans got from Trump’s threats to use military force to take Greenland. Now in Europe, there have been calls for “de-risking,” or distancing themselves from an unreliable and possibly dangerous U.S. partner.

Even before the scorching J.D. Vance speech last year at Munich and the breathtaking Trumpian threat about conquering Greenland, the Europeans were nervous about Trump effectively changing sides in the Russia-Ukraine War by cutting U.S. military aid to Ukraine, initially backing a baldly one-sided peace plan put forth by Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and then pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to rush into an unfavorable peace deal that ceded even Ukrainian........

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