Pence’s first speech on the world stage since taking office was designed to reassure nervous European partners that the Trump administration would not upend decades of US foreign policy by abandoning the trans-Atlantic relationship in favour of an “America First’’ strategy.
Europe’s leaders were eager for such reassurances after President Donald Trump’s remarks during the presidential campaign and after he was elected belittling the NATO alliance, making repeated overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin and suggesting that the European Union was likely to lose additional countries after the UK voted to exit the bloc.
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