After 3 years of an American President who couldn’t give a damn about past close American European relations….And American President that spent his first years in office cozying up to any leader that wasn’t about democracy and a President who only wants friends that will pay…or help him politically kneecap a possible opponent ?
Europe is worried….
But that’s NOT all….
One of the Democrats run-in g, and seemingly in the led after only one win in two small contests worries them also ….
That guy is an un abashed Socialist and HIS policies seem on the face of it ?….
Not much different than the guy they have to deal with for last 3 years….
The American they grew up after World War II might never come back if the two mentioned above from different parties are sworn in next January 20th….
“The Americans say, ‘We are not the sheriff to provide security in your neighborhood,’ ” French President Emmanuel Macron told attendees of the annual Munich Security Conference, a Davos of the global security elite. He prodded his fellow Europeans to do everything they could to free themselves from dependence on Washington.
A year ago, Biden pushed policymakers to hold tight. Given a choice, many Europeans would embrace him over his Democratic opponents, simply because he would be a predictable president on foreign policy after years of Trump’s tweet-lashing. But U.S. political news is just as easy to read on the eastern side of the Atlantic, and they have watched the former vice president’s struggling candidacy with concern.
“They’re all doing invocations. They’re all praying for Biden. They’re all of the hope that this is a parenthesis, and then we get back to normal,” a senior NATO diplomat said in an interview at the three-day conference that ended Sunday. The diplomat spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about the private chatter at the NATO canteen.
Compared with Biden’s bold promises, chastened post-impeachment Democrats were much more modest this time around about what was in store for the U.S. relationship with Europe….
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