Dumpster Fires

When the Vice President is asked by European allies if they should trust him or the President, you know we are in trouble.  That was the situation when VP Pence tried to reassure NATO allies that we really won't abandon them in favor of Putin's Russia.  Pence responded with boilerplate assurances he was conveying Trump's assurance that all is well with the alliance.  If I was the representative of a small East European country bordering Russia, I would be terrified.  So it goes with most US government interactions with the rest of the world.   It would seem we are going to spend much of our time alternately reassuring our allies or scaring them at the whim of a narcissistic airhead who values chaos above surety.