The alliance breaker: How Trump is torching the West’s friendships

Something remarkable is happening in the corridors of Western power. America’s closest allies are no longer whispering their frustrations behind closed doors. They are shouting them from parliamentary podiums and press conferences — and Donald Trump is shouting back. The transatlantic alliance, built painstakingly over eight decades, is cracking in real time. The proximate cause is the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, launched on February 28, 2026, without consulting NATO partners, the United Nations, or even Washington’s most loyal friends. But the rupture runs deeper than any single conflict. It reflects a White House that appears either strategically indifferent to its allies or actively contemptuous of them. “The Americans Clearly Have No Strategy” No moment crystallized the breaking point more sharply […]