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Trump and the end of the geopolitical ‘West’

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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance angrily confronted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday .

John Sutter : The spat could be a hinge point of history.

Sutter says the spat has exposed a deepening rift between the U.S. and Europe over Ukraine .

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on other European governments to grow their militaries and join a coalition of the willing’ in taking up the slack in Ukraine .

But there may be much more slack to take up if the Trump administration makes good on its longer-term plans to draw down U.S. forces in Europe as part of a broader strategic pivot to the Indo-Pacific .