The bureaucrats who run the European Union and the globalists behind them are cocksure that with Donald Trump gone, things will return to the comfortable pre-Trump days.  Daddy Yankee will again uncomplainingly throw a protective blanket of security over Europe and in his benevolence turn a blind eye to the unfair trade arrangements that benefit Europe so.

There are two problems with this view.  

First, it's far from certain that Joe Biden will be sworn in as president in January.  As more and more evidence mounts of Democrat election fraud and vote-stealing, that prospect dims.  The mere possibility that Donald Trump will continue as president is not even considered in Europe.  The "ever so smart" European elite believe all they've been told by their fellow American globalists and from their consumption of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN.  Accordingly, they are clueless. 

Secondly, even should Biden become president, he will not be able to restore to good old days that Europe longs for...and needs.  

Take the matter of defense.  

As president, Trump made it acceptable not just to issue objections to Europe about its freeloading, but to actually start doing something about it, something none of his predecessors had the moxie to do.  Adding fuel to American anger toward Europe has been the E.U.'s propensity to anoint itself as the moral leader of the West and try to shape U.S. foreign policy from that vantage point.  The unstated but clear European message to America was "you do the work, and we'll sit back and tell you what to do and how to do it."