European officials knew the president’s win would threaten the fundamental precepts of the post-World War II order. But the speed at which it is unraveling has created a crisis of enormous proportions.

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the conflict between the US and Europe—and Germany in particular—has intensified day by day. Even the end of NATO can no longer be ruled out.

Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.