The slogan "America above all", on which the policy of US President Donald Trump is being built, led to a split with the countries of the European Union. For European leaders, his work looks like a kind of "political trolling," however, gives him additional points among the American electorate, says the program director of the INFD Ivan Timofeev. "I do not see any specific Trump plan in Europe. This is not a strategy. It is not drawn, "- said the expert" Newspaper. ru ", noting that he sees in the actions of the leader of the White House rather, the sequence of conjuncture decisions that cause contradictions in Europe. According to him, Trump's reluctance to pay the bills of Europe undoubtedly divided Germany, France and Britain, and also deepened the split between Western and Eastern Europe. But "NATO will definitely not cease to exist because of a dispute over spending on defense, and America will in any case remain an attractive market for the EU". Trump formulates a new US policy toward the European Union, which is based on the need to pay for themselves, and not to forget about American interests. The contradictions between the EU countries and Washington have become evident in recent months, I am sure Dmitry Danilov, head of the Euro-security department of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They most clearly manifested themselves at the G-7 summit on June 8-9, where the US president openly expressed irritation with Europe's reluctance to reduce trade duties with the US, and also threatened to impose sanctions against companies taking part in the Northern Stream-2.

According to Trump, European countries thus put themselves in an even greater dependence on Russian gas, and, consequently, on the political will of Moscow. According to Danilov, "The EU has now faced a choice. The choice of this strategically anti-. In this context, attempts to blame Russia for "destroying" the EU's unity by its actions, do not stand up to criticism.

"There have always been contradictions in Europe, and Washington uses them in the same way as Moscow," the expert said..