Donald Trump's defeat would deal a blow to European populism

The recent European tour of Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, included visits to the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia. It concluded with the inking of a bilateral US-Polish military agreement. It was as if President Donald Trump’s administration had decided to resurrect the once-powerful Habsburg empire in the hope of keeping Germany down and Russia out of Europe. Consolidating a strategic bloc of countries within the EU that are suspicious of Russia and