What the Iran Crisis Reveals About European Power

What the Iran Crisis Reveals About European Power

Donald Trump is forcing Europe to confront its own weakness. The U.S. president’s bellicose policy toward Iran has, until now, been met with an unusual unity of opposition from Europe’s big three powers, the U.K., France, and Germany, as well as from the European Union itself. The brute reality, as things stand, is that Europe does not yet have the tools—or the will—to project its power.