PITY the poor European who seeks consistency. On January 22nd Mike Pence, America’s vice-president, said that the United States was on the verge of quitting the nuclear agreement signed with Iran in 2015. At the same time Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, was in London expressing optimism that the deal could be saved with a bit of tinkering. Foreign ministers from across the European Union were in Brussels that day; the confusion hovered above their conversation like an Amazon drone bearing either chocolates or dynamite.
Mr Trump’s carnivalesque approach to the presidency has made life hard for America’s allies, but his first year in office has not brought forth anything like the full horrors that some predicted. Congress has boxed him in on Russia, NATO does not yet totter and trade wars have failed to break out (although this week brought worrying news). Even if many Europeans reject Mr Trump as baffling and odious—just 25% in a recent Gallup survey express approval of his...Continue reading
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