C Raja Mohan writes: Has Trumpism broken the Collective West?

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The dramatic move by US President Donald Trump to initiate peace talks with Russia on Ukraine — and his Vice President, JD Vance’s, no-holds-barred attack against European democracies at the annual Munich Security Conference last week — has left America’s European allies in a state of shock and some of them in tears. If America and Europe were long seen as inseparable, the divergence between the two seems stark and wide since the return of Trump to the White House. The two pillars of the West are now at odds on the nature of the European security order, the terms...