The Week Europe Stopped Living the American Lie

I watched something shift this week. Not gradually, but suddenly, like ice cracking on a frozen lake.

From Scandinavia, we’ve all been tracking Trump’s threats to seize Greenland, his insults to NATO allies whose troops died in Afghanistan, and his bizarre “board of peace” launch at Davos. What struck me wasn’t the threats, rhetoric, or his ideas. We kno…