Donald Trump and his administration’s haphazard approach to alliance discipline, strategic continuity, and the maintenance of American primacy supplied the final lesson: Europe can no longer rely on the American security order. Sweden, and Europe more broadly, may yet create something beautiful out of the Ukrainian war: a client state worth keeping, and a cornerstone in a new era of European-controlled spheres of influence. Serious powers do not expend resources for isolated effects. A weapons transfer should not merely strengthen a client state in the field. It should bind that client state to Europe through spare-parts dependency, training pipelines, software control, doctrinal … Continue reading Mission Profile: Soft Power as the New Dominion