Another Trump term could spur Europe’s efforts to stand on its own, but it is far from clear its leaders will seize the moment this time.

By Emma Ashford, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a senior fellow with the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, and Matthew Kroenig, a columnist at Foreign Policy and vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

NATO chief Mark Rutte said Thursday North Korea's involvement in Russia's war against Ukraine posed a direct threat to the United States -- in a first pitch to convince Donald Trump to keep backing Kyiv.