UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS: How European Leaders Studied Trump and Learned to Speak His Language: Officials made concessions and worked to improve relationship with president, seeking to keep trans-Atlantic alliance alive.

“The default setting of the Europeans is to wait, worry and complain,” said Kurt Volker, who was U.S. special representative for Ukraine during Trump’s first term.

“This is the worst instinct possible for dealing with Trump. What you need to do is be positive, do your own homework and make your own proposals and be proactive. I think Monday was a good demonstration of everybody figuring out how to do that.”

In other words, “leaders” should act like leaders, not spoiled children. An idea so crazy it just might work! The whole article is pretty charitable to the Europeans, but it literally boils down to taking some responsibility and displaying absolutely basic political skills.