The US-Israeli bombardment has once again underlined Donald Trump\u2019s indifference to international law. A stronger EU can be a vital counterweight<\/p>\n
When European leaders were blindsided in January by Donald Trump\u2019s unilateral abduction<\/a> of Venezuela\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, their immediate response was to hedge their bets. Kaja Kallas, the European Union\u2019s top diplomat, affirmed<\/a> that the principles of international law must always be respected, but also asserted that Mr Maduro lacked legitimacy. As a new Trump-compliant leadership emerged in Caracas, Europe\u2019s attention drifted to crises closer to home.<\/p>\n The dilemmas and dangers posed by Mr Trump\u2019s war<\/a> of choice in Iran \u2013 again initiated with no attempt to consult allies or gain US congressional approval \u2013 are not so easily swerved. The US president has berated<\/a> and mocked Sir Keir Starmer over a lack of full-throated support for his latest military adventure. He has threatened<\/a> Spain with a trade embargo, after its prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, described the joint US-Israeli assault on Tehran as \u201cunjustified and dangerous\u201d, and refused to sanction the use of military bases. Even Mr Trump\u2019s close ideological ally, the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is under pressure<\/a> from an electorate deeply hostile to involvement in another open-ended Middle East conflict with unpredictable consequences.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US-Israeli bombardment has once again underlined Donald Trump\u2019s indifference to international law. A stronger EU can be a vital counterweight When European leaders were blindsided in January by Donald Trump\u2019s unilateral abduction of Venezuela\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, their immediate response was to hedge their bets. Kaja Kallas, the European Union\u2019s top diplomat, affirmed that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}