The upcoming G-7 summit in France is getting little attention in light of the continuing saga in Iran. European leaders had better be prepared, however, as President Donald Trump could use that meeting as an opportunity to press forward on his longstanding demands.
Trump has many perplexing behaviours, and one is his tendency to treat legal equals as his subordinates. That domineering attitude was most recently expressed publicly in relation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump said that Netanyahu would “have no choice” but to accept any deal with Iran that Trump negotiated. That’s how one treats puppets or satraps, not allies.
European leaders know that feeling all too well. From Trump’s regular fulminations about NATO to his threats to invade Greenland to his humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, the American President rarely misses an opportunity to remind supposed allies of their relative weakness vis-à-vis the United States.
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