With Trump as America’s tsar and Musk at his side, Starmer must now look to Europe | Jonathan Freedland

Trump is acting instead like an enemy of the US ’s historic partners, either security or hostile interference in their domestic affairs.

The pattern of conduct by Trump should be familiar with familiar lies aimed at nativist nationalism.

The determined control of media and information, already greeted in the US by a phenomenon that the eminent scholar calls “antantatory tyranny of the U.S. ”.

It's a playbook written by Vladimir Putin , with Trump as America ’s tsar and Musk as his principal broligarch.

While Putin covets Ukraine , Georgia and Moldova , Trump is eyeing up Greenland and the Panama Canal (and even Canada ) The west took a while but eventually it came to understand the threat of Putin and, largely, united against it.

Now the non-US west has to achieve a similar clarity and unity in the face of Trump .