Trump and Vance Have Room to Run on Ukraine, and on Europe

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• The Washington foreign-policy establishment working in concert with the 1
• Europeans has been trying for years to Trump-proof both endless US 1
• The new Trump administration can blow through most of these efforts if it 1
• To much fanfare a few months ago the effort to distribute military aid to 1
• Ukraine was moved from the US aegis to the NATO one. This was widely 1
• The more interesting angle is the domestic effort to constrain the 1
• This legal formalist approach is unlikely to constrain a motivated president. 1
• Trump wouldnʼt have to do a mortgageʼs worth of paperwork to distance 1
• Something very different something beautiful actually . And you know 2
• Article 11 maybe the most beautiful article of all says the treaty needs to 2
• In the same speech he could repeat the pledge he made to David Sacks 2
• Such a speech would be an enormous blow to NATO. It would make clear 2
• Washingtonʼs waning interest in being the cornerstone of European 2
• Instead or in addition to a speech making clear his interpretation of Article 2
• 5 Trump could just Irish goodbye the alliance. He could do this in any 2
• By giving a speech like the one I outline above or by Irish goodbying the 2
• Washingtonʼs blank check to Ukraine has gone on too long as has its 2
• If he wants to Congress and NATO likely cannot stop him. 2