A Trump-Putin pact is emerging – and Europe is its target

A prime time current affairs programme; a discussion about Donald Trump's handling of the war in Ukraine. "He's doing excellent things," says a firebrand politician on the panel, before listing White House actions that have belittled Volodymyr Zelenskyy and weakened his battlefield position - military aid suspended; satellite communications obstructed; intelligence withheld. "Do we support this?" It is a rhetorical question. "We support it all. Absolutely," the celebrity host responds. "We are thrilled by everything Trump is doing." Such approval might not be out of place on polemical rightwing channels in the US, but these exchanges weren't broadcast to American…