When Volodymyr Zelensky met Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Germany in Downing Street yesterday, the Trump administration’s new national security strategy will have loomed large in their conversation.

A transcript leaked last week of a call among the leaders quoted Emmanuel Macron warning Ukraine that the United States may “betray” them in talks with Russia, while Friedrich Merz told the Ukrainian leader that the Americans “are playing games with both you and us”.

The White House’s new strategy won’t have calmed those fears. Alongside denunciations of Europe’s governments for supposedly blocking peace , and predicting that “within a few decades … certain Nato members will become majority non-European”, the paper recklessly calls into question Nato , the most successf

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