President Trump’s conflict in Iran is placing financial strain on many European international locations. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to debate the results of the battle on America’s allies, and extra.
“It’s a really unusual second as a result of, on the one hand, really, U.S. and NATO allies are cooperating an unlimited quantity,”Anne Applebaum, a employees author at The Atlantic, mentioned final night time, referencing the logistical and intelligence assist that some European international locations have offered the US since Trump launched the conflict in Iran. The president, nevertheless, can also be “in search of scapegoats, and he’s landed on Europeans,” Applebaum added.
All through Trump’s second time period, America’s European allies have “been insulted, they’ve been tariffed, they’ve been attacked,” Applebaum argued. “And there does come a second when folks do begin to say, What are we getting out of this relationship?”
Becoming a member of the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to debate this and extra: Applebaum; Gillian Tett, a columnist on the Monetary Instances; Karim Sadjadpour, a contributing author at The Atlantic and a senior fellow on the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace; Nancy Youssef, a employees author at The Atlantic.
Watch the complete episode right here.
