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| Globalism no longer trendy. It's not just Trump. Much of America has turned its back on Europe |
| 2018-09-28 |
| BLUF: [Guardian] A former US secretary of state tells me just how little interest audiences across the country now express in foreign policy. Anyone who experiences American airports, highways, trains or schools can easily understand why Americans would now want to focus more on improving them rather than airstrips and schools in Afghanistan or Iraq. America First is not just a Trump slogan. It is a national mood, to which even the most internationalist president would have to adapt. Trump is awful, but in this respect, he is as much symptom as cause. The problem of transatlantic divergence was there before Trump, has underlying causes deeper than Trump, and will still be with us after Trump. To be sure, the 100 years of on-off transatlantic partnership since the Meuse-Argonne offensive of September 1918 have left a massive legacy: the biggest, closest, international economic intertwining in the world; the Nato security alliance, with a renewed mutual defence commitment thanks to Putin; as well as a matchless cultural and intellectual intimacy. The transatlantic west is still a mighty, muscular body ‐ but with a wandering mind, a weakened heart and a divided soul. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 "how little interest audiences across the country now express in foreign policy" Nearly two decades of war and political backfighting because of that war will do that to you. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-09-28 12:30 |
| #7 When the goals of globalism are 90% the same as the goals of the Communist party it seems foolish to proceed and hope you won't lose control of the thing. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-09-28 12:28 |
| #6 Much of Europe is souring on it too after all the "immigrants" that have polluted their countries. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-09-28 11:36 |
| #5 The Gaurdian is a Marxist newspaper so they hate the Western Civilization and everything that represents it. |
| Posted by: These Sinatra3854 2018-09-28 10:22 |
| #4 The Guardian will never eschew its Trotskyite heritage. |
| Posted by: Hupusing Claitch6798 2018-09-28 08:24 |
| #3 Much of America has turned its back on Europe Not to mention holding their noses. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-28 08:22 |
| #2 Pluckest the mote from thine own eye Grauniadista |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-09-28 08:06 |
| #1 Sad commentary on the liberal Brits. The writer is quick to criticize the American voter, President Trump, and even his own country's voters. Perhaps a little more self reflection is in order. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2018-09-28 07:57 |