European leaders are confronting their worst-case scenario: maybe they really are going to be dealing with a bellicose Russia alone.
When the U.S. lined up alongside Russia and North Korea earlier this week to oppose a U.N. motion condemning Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, some European officials knew that the transatlantic relationship was in deep trouble. Then they watched in horror as Donald Trump gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy a public dressing down in the Oval Office and something broke.
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