The most animated reset has come about after the return of Donald Trump to the White House, and in a little over two months, the global teapot has been stirred in a rude, transactional/extortionist manner and the tea leaves are yet to settle. The fraying of the trans-Atlantic alliance represented by NATO was palpable in the February 2025 UN vote. Europe is bewildered and those who have some recall of the ravages of the last century, and the death and destruction of two World Wars, as imperial powers jostled for primacy, feel a deep sense of insecurity.