Europe’s old US-linked political leaders have now found a way to arrest, or maybe even reverse, Europe’s frightening decline. By minimizing any extra taxes upon their employer classes, Western European leaders serve them very well. The same Western European leaders who criticize Trump lusting after Denmark’s Greenland indulge parallel lusts after Russia’s geographic expanse. Europe’s leaders believe they can accomplish this by pumping up mass anxiety and fear around urgent preparations for a war against Russia. The same Western European leaders who criticize Trump lusting after Denmark’s Greenland indulge parallel lusts after Russia’s geographic expanse.