NAPOLI, Italy, April 15 (UPI) -- Having spent much of last week in London and now on the continent, glaring disconnects between both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific have become more than obvious to me.
The first is the disconnect between Europe and the United States over the role of NATO, the threat and the war in Iran. The second is the disconnect between the United States and its "allies," not only over the war, but about China and whether the alliance will endure.
While Donald Trump has become the catalyst in exposing these geostrategic, political and economic divides, they have been metastasizing like a lurking cancer for decades.
Way back when -- a lifetime in politics -- the Obama administration made its clumsy and ill-prepared declaration of a "pivot" to Asia, it did so without much of a preplanned strategy not to disrupt our allies or unnecessarily anger China.
To those of us who believed and still do that the geostrategic center of gravity for the United States is in Europe not the Pacific, that "pivot" was flawed from the start.
