The problem is, though, that no matter how examplary the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian (and Polish) commitment to «Wales» is, soaring tensions between the U.S. and other NATO members, who do not comply with the sacred norm, most of them being Western European, and who do not intend to remain silent about Trump’s raw, anything but Wilsonian unilateralism, threaten to erode the stability of Trans-Atlantic relations as such. How much is April’s optimism still worth in such a tensed environment? Estonian Prime Minister Ratas (like his Dutch counterpart Rutte) tried to play down the tensions that almost derailed the recent NATO Summit in Brussels, due to Trump’s sermons on the «two percent issue», but the latter’s incomprehensible, undiplomatic style vis-à-vis America’s old allies and flirting with authoritarian rulers, an embarrassing Umwertung aller Werte, only accentuate that a return to business as usual will not be accomplished that easily. As former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves put it on Twitter: «The past week – at NATO, in the UK, in comments about «foes», etc., add up to the most disruptive, unilateral disruption of 70+ years of U.S. foreign policy. The continuity is important. Disrupt like this and it will take decades to re-establish trust.»