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A superpower that once built alliances across the west is dramatically reorienting itself – and so too must its former allies, writes Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Munich Security Conference comes as the US appears to be stepping back from European security guarantees.

Statements that there can be no negotiations without Kyiv ring hollow when the US president has just sidelined it

US defence secretary suggests cutting number of American troops in Europe could even be part of a deal with Russia

Editorial: The US president wants to end this war – and is happy to do so on Russian terms

Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, spoke for much of the European diplomatic community when she reacted to news of Donald Trump’s phone chat with Vladimir Putin: “This is the way the Trump administration operates,” she declared. “This is not how others do foreign policy, but this is now the…

It was left to the poor junior defence minister Maria Eagle to walk that particular tightrope in the Commons

President Trump prioritizes investment and economic benefits in US-Ukraine relations, focusing on leveraging Ukraine's rare earth minerals.

Recent diplomatic efforts by President Donald Trump to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine have drawn comparisons to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.