US President Donald Trump’s emissaries to the Kremlin may have been spinning their wheels during talks last week in Moscow on a possible Ukraine peace deal, but the Russians can now press a new advantage: The widening rift between Washington and Europe.

The continent is gripped by economic stagnation and headed in “very bad directions.” It is confronted by “the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure,” according to the U.S. president,