President Trump has said that there is an elephant in the china shop, namely that the EU is a “foe”:
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-interview-cbs-news-european-union-is-a-foe-ahead-of-putin-meeting-in-helsinki-jeff-glor/

“Coming off a contentious NATO summit and a trip to the U.K. in which he seemed to undercut the government of America’s closest ally, President Trump took aim at another Western institution just days before his high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Jeff Glor in Scotland on Saturday, President Trump named the European Union -- comprising some of America’s oldest allies -- when asked to identify his “biggest foe globally right now.” “Well, I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now, you wouldn’t think of the European Union, but they’re a foe. Russia is foe in certain respects. China is a foe economically, certainly they are a foe. But that doesn’t mean they are bad. It doesn’t mean anything. It means that they are competitive,” Mr. Trump said at his golf club in Turnberry, Scotland.”

     He did not need to state the obvious given his reception in the UK (decay), and even snubbing by the Queen. Europe is self-destructing faster than any other Western region, and we are documenting the death throe of the cradle of Western civilisation as it happens. The only hope now comes from Russia and Eastern Europe, who have not been worked over so thoroughly by the politically correct virus and white pathology. The EU elites are running scared ahead of Trump’s meeting with Vlad the lad Putin, and rightly so. Both leaders, despite their limitations,  have a concern for preserving what remains of white Western Christian civilisation, while most countries in the EU, especially Britain, do nothing to stem the tide of migrants, and migrant rape.
  https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/neocons-panic-trump-putin-meeting-could-mark-close-syrian-proxy-war/ri24124 
  https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/russia-hating-us-media-goes-overdrive-ahead-summit-small-sampling-absurdity/ri24109
  https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/lutheran-pastor-explains-russia-beacon-promise-christian-future/ri24069