February 5, 2021 ☼ europe ☼ biden
Source: The Washington Post - Link
There’s no doubt that most European leaders are relieved by the vision and commitments of the new U.S. administration. But that doesn’t mean they will follow Biden’s lead in lockstep on the world stage. The ultranationalism of former president Donald Trump and the bruising experience of Brexit further convinced officials in Berlin, Paris and Brussels of the need to pursue a more independent European approach and to build greater capacity for self-reliance after more than half a century of sheltering beneath the American security umbrella.
This is probably a good thing. We want them independent. However, we don’t want them dependent on China or Russia, which is what the Trump foreign policy was doing.