When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the possibility of taking Greenland by force, European leaders reacted with outrage — and then, almost immediately, with relief once he backed down. Wolfgang Ischinger, the doyen of the Munich Security Conference, expressed similar relief when he described Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech there — chock full of conditionality on immigration and culture war tropes — as “reassuring.”That sentiment may prove far more dangerous than any threats from Washington.The trans-Atlantic partnership of days past no longer exists. After decades of considering aligned interests and close collaboration a fact of life, the relationship betweenThe post Breaking Europe’s Trans-Atlantic Habit: The End of the Senior Partner Myth appeared first on War on the Rocks.