This is all playing out the way both Trump and Biden intended it (you can find speeches to this effect). The US is tired of playing world police. They spend ma

This is all playing out the way both Trump and Biden intended it (you can find speeches to this effect). The US is tired of playing world police. They spend massive amounts of money and put their own people at risk to attempt to stabilize the world, but when things go wrong they get all the flak for it. Trump said in 2018 that the US spends so much money on NATO to defend against Russia, yet EU countries (like Germany) put money INTO Russia by buying their energy. Similar logic for the withdrawal from Afghanistan, started under the Trump administration and completed under Bidens. They intended to stabilize the region but just ended up looking like fools when they withdrew, because Afghani forces became reliant on the US for defence rather than building up their own. EU is going to have to take responsibility for their own safety now. Although it will be painful, I think it's the only sensible way forwards. The alternative would be US stepping into a conflict that's not theirs once again, bearing the economic and social cost for it from all sides and furthering the EU addiction to having someone else defend them.