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Letter: Europeans’ Trust in American Leadership is Damaged Beyond Repair
European trust in U.S. global leadership may be damaged beyond repair.
Source: Financial Times
Gideon Rachman is right that a Biden presidency “could not turn back the clock” on Donald Trump (March 10). But it’s not the case that Europeans just expect and hope “that an administration led by the former vice-president would effectively reset the geopolitical calendar to January 20 2017”.
This article was originally published by the Financial Times.
About the Author
Former Nonresident Fellow, Europe Program
David Whineray was a nonresident fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
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