Europe’s Trump whisperer doesn’t buy US cuddly pivot

(Chris Lunday – Politico) The U.S. is being much less offensive at this year’s Munich Security Conference but one of Europe’s top Trump whisperers sees it as a shift in tone, not substance. “American foreign policy has changed,” Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland and occasional golf buddy of President Donald Trump, said in a live interview with POLITICO, pointing to the U.S. National Security Strategy that reserved some of its harshest remarks for American allies in Europe and recent messaging from senior officials. The American approach combines ideology and hierarchy, he said: “One is ideological: It’s very MAGA … and then the second strand is America First.” – Europe’s Trump whisperer doesn’t buy US cuddly pivot – POLITICO