This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

The European Union, NATO, Ukraine, all watching the United States

and the tariff disputes of these last days.

Why?

I read from a column in the New York in the Financial Times appearing recently by an author who is co-CEO of the Brussels-based

Itinera Institute, author of Superpower Europe. However, the author, Mr. DeVos, finds lots to complain about in these last days.

But to placate Donald Trump's instincts, he writes, Europe has had to bow down and pay up no fewer

than three times. First for NATO, pledging hundreds of billions of dollars to additional defense,

then for Ukraine, committing to paying the U.S. for weapons Ukraine needs.

And finally, this week, allowing the U.S. to unilaterally multiply tariffs,

even as Europe promises more than $1.3 trillion in purchases of American energy.

Anatol Levin, the Eurasia Project Director for the Quincy Institute for Responsible

Statecraft, is in his native Britain traveling in Europe these last days after traveling in the

Mediterranean, in the Black Sea Basin.

And I come to him on these three blows, according to Mr. DeVos, and according to the front

page of the Financial Times, and whether this is a matter that will be fleeting, as many of

Mr. Trump's remarks are, or whether Europe is now taking its second-class citizenship to heart.

And I told a very good evening to you.

I note that all three of these matters touch on Ukraine, which is the bleeding wound in Europe.

Is this a surprise to you that the Financial Times has turned so dire, or is this something

that's in the wind for quite some time in Europe? Good evening to you.

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