Ian Bremmer

So that irritates him.

The Europeans are all in supporting Ukraine and they're spending a lot more money on their own defense.

Certainly the Germans are, the Poles are, the frontline states are.

They're also now spending all the money

for Ukrainian defense.

American taxpayers are no longer spending anything on Ukraine.

So this is 100% the Europeans.

And that's what really, I think, you know, has so antagonized when the Europeans are doing all of the burden

for Ukraine in defending a democracy that the Americans wanted to invite to join NATO.

It was Condi Rice and Bush that pushed that.

It wasn't the Europeans first and foremost.

So the Americans are the ones doing, the Europeans are now the ones doing all of the lifting.

for Ukraine to help the Ukrainians.

And then the Americans decide to engage in a war in Iran that is going very badly.

They didn't tell the Europeans about it in advance.

And then the Europeans take more economic damage from the war.

And then Trump calls them cowards when they don't stand up and join him.

I mean, the level of anger among European leaders right now towards the United States is unprecedented in my lifetime.

I have never seen anything like it.

And that's even before we talk about the trade hostilities.