Sita Nataraj Slavov is Professor of Public Policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
“There’s a new sheriff in town,” declared US Vice President J.D. Vance at this year’s Munich Security Conference. With his boss, “Sheriff” Donald Trump, openly disparaging America’s longstanding security commitments and actively undermining European security, the United States can no longer be trusted, and it is up to Europe’s leaders to bolster the continent’s defense capacity – and fast.
