Brookings-Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative

I’m sure that these foreign leaders thought that they were doing what was best for their country and they were trying to game out how to best influence Trump. It may be that foreign leaders are going through the same learning curve that we’ve gone through in the United States.

[U.S.-Turkish joint patrols to oversee security in the northern Syrian city of Manbij could probably start soon after Washington and Ankara agreed on a plan for the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters.] Decisions on vetting and personnel changes in security/governance structures will undoubtedly take longer — that is where implementation challenges could arise.

I’d hate to see what’s in store for people who aren’t allies [with the United States]...[Every European effort to find compromise] has met with a brutal slapdown, and these things add up... While Europe now has relatively little leverage against Washington, there will be a moment when the U.S. needs Europe on a major issue — and what if there’s just silence?