March 25, 2025

For JD Vance, Europe really is the enemy

Yascha Mounk

Recent polling by More in Common suggests that many Europeans have a similar assessment of the situation. In the United Kingdom, about half of respondents still saw the United States as an ally a few weeks ago; but about a third said that the country was neither an ally nor an enemy. In Germany and France, a plurality has now taken the more pessimistic view: they have come to see America as neither one nor the other. In all three countries, less than one in five respondents thinks of the United States as an enemy.