The transatlantic relationship was never merely an alliance between states. It was, rather, a geopolitical idea of order, held together not only by shared values. After 1945, a strategic architecture emerged: American power, European economic recovery, NATO security, open markets, and the shared realization that freedom does not survive without protection. Anyone speaking today about a distancing between the EU and the United States is therefore not only speaking about diplomatic irritation, but about a possible tectonic shift in the