The diplomat questioned whether Europe would be a dynamic economy or just somewhere Americans visit for lovely wines, cheeses and beers

The document released Friday describes itself as the "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine.

This swaggering right of intervention is called a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. That is a deliberate tribute to the “Roosevelt Corollary”, President Theodore Roosevelt’s assertion of gendarme-like enforcement rights over the western hemisphere in 1904.

Some NATO members could soon become “majority non-European” which could raise questions about their future loyalty to Washington, according to the U.S. National Security Strategy which outlines President Donald Trump’s foreign policy priorities.

Behind the jokes lies a gentler truth Europe is reluctant to face. The post-war “rules-based international order” — always more myth than manual — has been fading for decades. Donald Trump’s second term did not cause Europe’s diminished relevance.

President Donald Trump warned the European Union that it must be “very careful” after its regulators hit Elon Musk‘s X with a $140 million fine. The European Commission implemented the fine on Friday,

Mark Rutte's comments come a day after Putin rejected US proposals for peace in Ukraine after talks with US negotiators in Moscow.

According to Putin, these longstanding principles of international security state that if one nation is safe, it does not mean that it is safe at the expense of another nation.