The increasingly common consensus of the foreign policy commentariat is that while Europe has finally gotten its act together against Russia‘s threat, President Donald Trump remains Moscow’s weak pawn.

This is inaccurate.

Yes, Trump too often views the trans-Atlantic alliance through a wholly business-like prism, ignoring concerns of history and trust. He also continues to placate Vladimir Putin in misplaced deference to the Russian president. Still, Europe remains unwilling to respond robustly to blatant Russian aggression against its interests. We’ve seen three examples of this dynamic in only the past two weeks.

First, on Wednesday, Lithuanian prosecutors announced that a comprehensive investigation had found that Russia’s GRU military intelligence was responsible for orchestrating a plot last year to smuggle explosives into international shipping packages from Lithuania and then detonate the packages on cargo airliners destined for the United States. In four separate incidents, one package detonated at a German airport, one detonated on a shipping truck in Poland, one detonated at a shipping warehouse in the United........

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