European leaders show the same confusion and diffidence. To be sure, Zelenskyy is still welcomed in capitals large and small and is promised ongoing support; in London, King Charles III received him for a private audience, and the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, greeted him at 10 Downing Street by offering a military package. More open criticism of the U.S. president may be coming. So far, however, there is no sign of anything like the unified pushback that major European allies mustered after Trump’s jovial summit meeting with Putin in Alaska last year. At that time, they descended on the White House en masse (bringing Zelenskyy with them), to chide Trump for yielding too much ground to Moscow. Now, even Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary-general and a famous Trump whisperer, has said little.
