
European leaders treated the first Donald Trump presidency as an aberration: something to ride out while limiting the damage, rather than the spur it should have been to make the continent’s security and economy more resilient. Trump’s re-election proves his first term was no one-off. For four years — and, if Trumpism becomes embedded, perhaps for longer — Europe’s greatest political and economic ally is going to have a president driven by self-interest and little regard for traditional alliances.
歐洲領導人將唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的第一任總統任期視為一種異常情況:他們認為應該盡量減少損害并平穩度過這段時間,而不是將其視為刺激歐洲加強安全和經濟韌性的契機。特朗普的連任證明他的第一任期并非偶然事件。在接下來的四年——如果特朗普主義得以深入,甚至可能更長時間——歐洲最重要的政治和經濟盟友將有一個以自身利益為驅動、對傳統聯盟關系幾乎不予理會的總統。