After other leaders of Europe’s major military forces left the gilded Élysée Palace in Paris on Monday night, French President Emmanuel Macron immediately called Donald Trump and, separately, Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
What accomplishments may the president of France claim? Did he have a successful emergency security summit?
The fact that there is rarely a definitive response irritates critics of Europe. Despite having many of the same beliefs and objectives, different European countries have different voices.
However, European complexity might be viewed as weakness in the current black-and-white mentality that pervades Moscow and Washington, where the world is split between the powerful and the weak.
The meeting on Monday was a failure under that merciless spotlight.
