US-Iran War Fallout, April 5 -- The transatlantic alliance that rebuilt the West after the Second World War and held the line through the Cold War is, by several accounts, closer to collapse than at any point in its history. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump has privately floated the idea of withdrawing the United States from NATO.

The immediate fault line is the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, a war that European governments were not consulted on, do not recognise as legal, and have refused to join.

Trump, according WSJ report citing people familiar with his private conversations, has reacted with fury. The US President has reportedly expressed "disgust" towards European allies for staying on the...