That irritating feeling that France was right

European leaders who gathered at the Munich Security Conference last weekend found some solace in the less caustic note struck by America. Whereas last year J.D. Vance, its vice-president, had wounded and dismayed, this year Marco Rubio, its secretary of state, was a more gracious critic. But a critic he was, and the Europeans left with the sense that, in Trumpworld, they are on their own. This is disconcerting enough. But while Donald Trump’s capriciousness inspires deep anxiety among Europeans, they are also troubled by another uncomfortable idea: a scratchy sense that perhaps France was right after all.