The complaints from Europe about Trump's approach to Ukraine are rather strange. After all, each and every European nation can execute its own sovereign foreign policy, including in relation to matters of war and peace. Each and every European nation is likewise free to fund as much or as little in the way of military capability as it chooses, and to support Ukraine as much or as little as it chooses, including with air strikes, naval action or troop deployments. While the capacities of smaller nations remain inherently limited, at least the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland can individually choose to match or exceed the modest American commitment to Ukraine, and their failure to do so is a choice that each of those nations has made each day for several years now. Despite their rhetoric, evidently none of these nations have thought it worth placing their nations on a war footing with defence expenditures at 10% of GDP or greater, with corresponding disruptions to social and economic life elsewhere. Rather, each of these nations (in common with both the USA and, to a lesser extent, Russia itself) have sought to manage this conflict such that the impact on the home front remains minimal to nonexistent. It's almost as if none of this is particularly serious, except for Ukraine. Trump's attitude towards Ukraine only matters because European nations have chosen not to step up to the degree required to shape outcomes.