After diplomatic blitz on Ukraine and Gaza, Trump moves to passenger seat

Pentagon officials sat down with a group of European diplomats in late August and delivered a stern message: The US planned to cut off some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all NATO members bordering Russia. More broadly, Pentagon official David Baker told the group, according to an official with direct knowledge of the comments, Europe needed to be less dependent on the US Under President Donald Trump, the US military would be shifting its attention to other priorities, like defense of the homeland. Some European diplomats fretted that the move, first reportedearlier this month, could embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian MiG-31 jets entered Estonian airspace for roughly 10 minutes, Estonia said, before being chased away by Italian...