A report from abroad: Knowledgeable British and Europeans not only do not think America is back, they think it has gone mad.
After three weeks in Europe and extensive discussions with dozens of well-informed and highly placed individuals from most of the principal Western European countries, including leading members of the British government, I have the unpleasant duty of reporting complete incomprehension and incredulity at what Joe Biden and his collaborators encapsulate in the peppy but misleading phrase, “We’re back.”
As one eminent elected British government official put it, “They are not back in any conventional sense of that word. We have worked closely with the Americans for many decades and we have never seen such a shambles of incompetent administration, diplomatic incoherence, and complete military ineptitude as we have seen in these nine months. We were startled by Trump, but he clearly knew what he was doing, whatever we or anyone else thought about it. This is just a disintegration of the authority of a great nation for no apparent reason.”
From the European perspective,
American leadership of the West has produced excellent results and very
few unpleasant surprises since the United States stepped into that role
under Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II. At that time, the entire
future of Western civilization rested essentially upon the shoulders of
just two men, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and it was the epochal
good fortune of all of us that they were more than equal to their great
task. The level of acuity and success of the subsequent administrations,
as the competence of government of any nation must, has fluctuated. But
the emphasis was on continuity,
and the containment policy elaborated in the Truman Administration was
generally followed through to the great bloodless victory of the West,
as the Soviet Union crumbled and international Communism as we had known
it evaporated..........To Read More.....
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