Given its ambition to hold the entire world to ransom by its promotion of terrorism and its pyrotechnic cheerleadership of antisemitism, the indiscriminate belligerency of the Iranian government, such as it is, roiling and wallowing in a St. Vitus’ dance, makes some sense, although it is hopeless. Europe, mostly run by left-wing governments dependent to some extent on Islamic voters to remain in office, will have to determine if the old continent can shake off its enfeeblement, hypocrisy, and envy of the rise of America, and can reinject some promise into the European project. They need America much more than America needs them but above all they need to rediscover some of the distinction of Churchill, Adenauer, de Gasperi, de Gaulle and Thatcher. The spectacle of the great original nation-states and cradle of Western civilization cowering before terrorists is deeply sad. And China is about to receive a lesson, as within living memory, Germany and the U.S.S.R. did, on the difficulties of speeding past the United States as the world’s leading power. Underestimating America, and especially Trump’s America, remains a hazardous business.