Trump and Vance have smashed the old order – how should Europe respond?

This assault on democracy has left Europe reeling - and alone Nathalie Tocci Guardian Europe columnist For years, many of us assumed that with the decline of the US-led liberal international order, the split between democracies and autocracies would be what shaped the contemporary world. Liberal democracies in America, Europe and Asia would stick together, while China, Russia, Iran and North Korea would increasingly cooperate. The pessimists worried about the decline of multilateralism giving way to a "multi-order world" in which like-minded autocracies would start to cluster, making the search for global peace and prosperity ever harder. The reality looks…