Trump’s about-face on Ukraine leaves European leaders scrambling

Impotent fury. European leaders are frothing. U.S. President Donald Trump sparked the fury with a menu of insults and lies about Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Take your pick: He is an unelected dictator. Ukraine started the bloody war with Russia. Zelenskyy had better act fast or lose his country. “It’s our security he’s putting at risk,” Jean-Yves Drian, a former French foreign minister, told France-Info radio, referring to Trump and Europe more broadly. “Since arriving in power, all his swipes have been aimed uniquely at the historical friends of the U.S.” Even more fury spilled onto social media…