Daily Brief: Europe Rises as America Hesitates

A cultural analysis of how Europe’s commitment to collective defense, long-term alliances, and quiet consensus is shaping a new power structure—just as the US begins to step back.

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In today’s email

• 🇪🇺 Europe steps forward while the U.S. looks inward

• 🛡 NATO Chief Visits Ukraine—But Where Is the U.S.?

• 🤝 Europe Forms a "Coalition of the Willing" to Back Ukraine

• 💰 NATO Eyes Massive Defense Spending Increase

• 🧠 Why culture, not politics, explains the West’s divergence

• 📚 Book of the Week

• 📱 Cultural Persp…