India, Feb. 22 -- EU finds itself in uncharted waters. It needs its own trump card to navigate the Trump era.

The Munich Security Conference 2025 closed with its chairman, Christoph Heusgen, on the brink of tears-or was he driven to them? Is Europe waking up from a nightmare, or to one? Is it feeling hopeless or helpless? Is Europe leaning left, or returning to the right? The European enervation and exasperation at the Munich conference, as they listened to US Vice President J.D. Vance's rebuke, was palpable. They felt that Vance was vindictively trying to gnaw at the EU's proud identity as one of the most equal, egalitarian, liberal, and open societies in the world.

With Trump's eccentric and whimsical approach to Europe's biggest cris...