Transatlantic TakeWASHINGTON – An embittered U.S. elections cycle full of attention-grabbing headlines has cast a large shadow across the Atlantic. As the campaign rhetoric heats up, U.S. allies are collectively holding their breath, waiting to see what the future of U.S. global engagement and its commitment to existing alliance structures might look like.
With the breadth and depth of the challenges before it, Europe will be the first to admit the indispensable role that the United States plays in its own security. Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea in early 2014 and its continued destabilization of the Donbas have fundamentally altered …read more