Diplomats say France wants to lead the mission, exclude America and bring in India and perhaps China.

Its best option, [probably someone else] says, would be to redouble efforts to build the European pillar of NATO. Perhaps that would convince Mr Trump that allies are willing to take up more of the burden. More probably, it would at least start to prepare them for the daunting task of taking over NATO if Mr Trump abandons it.

New bloc goes brrrr.

Also, no thanks to this guy, who’s basically been supporting the complacency this whole time:

“I have spent the past five years telling people not to worry about Trump and NATO,” says one European diplomat in Washington, DC. “Now I am genuinely quite worried about Trump and NATO.”