Europe in combat mode? Paris summit redraws Ukraine plans without Washington

If Europeans didn’t get the memo in Munich, when JD Vance preferred a meeting with the pro-Putin far-right leader Alice Weidel to one with Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz, then they’re cordially invited to read what he says in private about an Old Continent populated by “freeloaders”. If Signalgate’s still not enough, then how about a sitting US vice president announcing an uninvited visit to Greenland? A “very aggressive” posture, says Denmark’s prime minister. But what can Mette Frederiksen do when her country buys most of its military hardware from the US and hosts a US Air Force base in Greenland?