He came, he saw, he vandalized.
Donald Trump's rampage of political destruction through Brussels and Britain has left NATO allies, European Union partners and believers in a U.S.-U.K. “special relationship” shaking their heads in dismay.
And that's before Monday's one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which could illustrate yet again that this U.S. president is more comfortable dealing with nuclear-armed autocrats than with the elected leaders of liberal democracies that have been America's closest friends since 1945.
Whatever the outcome of the unpredictable summit in Helsinki, it's up to the European Union now to clear up the wreckage from Trump's display of bullying, boorishness and boredom, and take on leadership of a rules-based international order with like-minded partners.
To quote a phrase that earned infamy when the EU failed to stop the Balkan wars of the early 1990s, this really should be the “hour of Europe.”
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