Bangladesh, March 1 -- Stephen M. Walt (a Harvard University international relations professor and a prominent member of the so-called realist school of international relations) argues, in his recent piece for Foreign Policy, that the United States of America is now “Europes enemy” – or at least the enemy of todays Europe and its values. Journalist Gideon Rachman (writing for Financial Times) has described it in lighter terms, by saying that “The Trump administrations political ambitions for Europe mean that, for now, America is also an adversary”.

Walt acknowledges that realists like himself have been arguing that (even from an American perspective) prolonging the war in Ukraine made no sense, and that NATO...