With all the talk on Trump being too aggressive with our European allies, consider the map below prepared by Bloomberg. Our NATO allies that we pay to defend from Russia, do a substantial business with Russia in natural gas and other commodities. The same can be said for European investment in Iran. The difference between Trump and previous democrat and republican presidents is that Trump will talk about European hypocrisy in the open without restraint. Is that good or bad? I don’t know, but it is different, and it very well may work to improve U.S. financial and military interests world wide.
