Facing the prospect that the United States might cut them adrift under President Donald Trump, European Union leaders held emergency talks Thursday to explore new ways to beef up their own security and ensure that Ukraine will still be protected.

Patriotism is treated as synonymous with xenophobia by the left, and Poland's premier grouses that Europe's weakness is wholly self-inflicted.

Europe’s leaders embraced a progressive liberalism that demonized all the traditional sources of a nation’s strength — its historic religion, patriotic pride and industrial base — and chose