“....Biden insisted his election last year represented a clear return to US leadership in world affairs. At G-7 and NATO summits last summer, he announced—boasted, really– that “America is back.” Allies understood that he meant that the mercuric Trump and his “America First” attitudes had been pushed offstage. They publicly welcomed Biden with satisfaction.
But Western joy was tempered by an underlying fear that some version of Trump’s nationalistic populism, an ideology with a two-century history in the US, might in fact live on, analysts said.
“After Biden, it may be Trump again,” commented Gerard Araud, a former French ambassador to the United States. “We Europeans, we have to learn to be grown up, we have to learn to defend or to handle our interests by ourselves.....””
“....“We Europeans, we have to learn to be grown up, we have to learn to defend or to handle our interests by ourselves.....””
That is the Trump foreign policy in a nut shell. Friendly countries can certainly be supportive of one another but each country must “learn to defend or to handle our interests by ourselves”
They don't have to handle their interests by themselves, all that Trump and conservatives asked was that they contribute what they previously promised to contribute.