![]() ![]() The most obvious concern, should America decide to strive for Trumpian greatness again, is Ukraine. Even so, the current relationship between Europe and America is not always smooth: witness the ructions over Mr Biden’s green tax breaks, which Europe frets come with protectionist strings attached. The incumbent commander-in-chief rarely fails to talk up his Irish heritage. President Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, speaks impeccable French, an indication of moral deviance in Trumpian circles. As American presidents not called Trump are wont to do, he listens to the Washington foreign-policy elite that European diplomats have schmoozed for decades. He holds reassuringly boring views about climate change (ie, that it is happening). Unlike President Trump, he has not called the EU a “foe” nor idly questioned the point of NATO. The continent’s leaders and voters were relieved in November 2020 when Joe Biden returned the Democrats to the Oval Office.
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