Europe's take on the speech

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15. Europeans didn't elect him

They know he's nuts, and they knew it in 2024. It's not their job to feed the trolls with bombast. It is their job to navigate a West with ambiguous U.S. presence, and they seem to be doing that job with deployments and with proposed countertariffs, all while fighting a war on their eastern flank and dealing with nationalist movements of their own.

It's on us to oppose our elected leaders in the way we choose. And from their viewpoint, while we don't believe this is who we are, they do. And it's more likely than not that someday they'll have to deal with the same issues under a different Republican American president.