The Columbian’s shocking headline “Trump names European Union as top foe” (July 16) raises a number of urgent questions. When did our closest allies become our enemies and when did our implacable enemy Russia become our friend?
NATO and EU nations fought alongside America in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. They stood by America after 9/11. Russian perfidy prompted the Cold War, and its aggression continues in Ukraine and Crimea. Russian attacks on our democracy have been documented by all our intelligence agencies and are reflected in the recent Justice Department indictments of Russian military covert GRU agents.
Why is President Trump siding with our enemy and condemning our friends? Is he being blackmailed by Russian President Vladimir Putin? Is he guilty of aiding and abetting Russian interference in our elections and fears being exposed? Or is he, in former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin’s words, simply a “useful idiot”?
