Europe’s Risk Is No Longer Only Russia
As war spreads across regions, the West’s greatest vulnerability may not lie in foreign adversaries, but in the quiet erosion of discipline at its own centre.
The danger to Europe is no longer confined to trenches in eastern Ukraine, nor to sabotage in the Baltic, nor to Russian influence operations threaded through the Balkans. It now sits in plain view inside the political machinery of the United States itself. That is the harder truth beneath Chris Christie’s remarks1. Strip away the studio banter, the swagger, the Jersey lore and the gossip of American politics, and what remains is a portrait of a republic drifting away from discipline and into personalised power. For Britain, and for every state on NATO’s exposed frontier, that is not merely an American drama. It is a strategic hazard.
This is the point too many Europeans still resist. They continue to view American political breakdown as a spectacle to be observed, deplored or mocked from a safe distance. That is a luxury Britain does not possess. The United Kingdom’s security architecture, like that of most of Europe, still rests in no small part on the assumption that the United State…
