The Iran War Is Putting Pressure on Europe

Editor’s Note: Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss growing opposition to President Trump’s attacks on Iran and what winning a war with unclear objectives could like.

President Trump’s war in Iran is putting economic pressure on many European countries. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss the effects of the conflict on America’s allies, and more.

“It’s a very strange moment because, on the one hand, actually, U.S. and NATO allies are cooperating an enormous amount,”Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic, said last night, referencing the logistical and intelligence support that some European countries have provided the United States since Trump launched the war in Iran. The president, however, is also “looking for scapegoats, and he’s landed on Europeans,” Applebaum added.

Throughout Trump’s second term, America’s European allies have “been insulted, they’ve been tariffed, they’ve been attacked,” Applebaum argued. “And there does come a moment when people do start to say, What are we getting out of this relationship?”

Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Applebaum; Gillian Tett, a columnist at the Financial Times; Karim Sadjadpour, a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Nancy Youssef, a staff writer at The Atlantic.

Watch the full episode here.