And the thing is, there's little cost to insulting the EU. Elon Musk doesn't go after the Chinese Communist Party because doing so would destroy his business. But Europe has independent courts and checks and balances and it's not a dictatorship so he can send mean tweets with little consequence

What Trump has made me realise is how much the post-Cold War relationship hinged on shared values rather than shared interests. Trump is illustrating how, whether on Ukraine and Gaza, our interests diverge and, absent those values, there's not much holding us together.

America is vast. That fact in itself has shaped& defined its politics and culture. And it is really far away. Sounds trivial but it matters. I have always thought of myself as an Atlanticist. The current transatlantic rift is shocking. But America was never our Appendix. How arrogant to think that.

As for me, I did like the dB rant.