Just Like Putin!
...they have begun to believe that...there is a strategy: to undercut European solidarity in NATO and the European Union so the United States can exercise its economic and military power to shape relations with individual countries, just as China and Russia seek to do.
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...Europeans are now convinced that Mr. Trump has an agenda that is inimical to their interests, said François Heisbourg, a French political analyst.
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...Tomas Valasek, the director of Carnegie Europe...said, "He wants to pit countries against one another and use U.S. power and wealth against the others for his advantage.”
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...European leaders made little effort to engage with Mr. Trump, chatting to one another while Mr. Trump walked along with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a semiauthoritarian outsider.
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...Sigmar Gabriel, the former German foreign minister, said...“We cannot delude ourselves anymore. Donald Trump only knows strength. So we have to show him that we are strong.”
Sincerely, this is Putin too. There are no differences.
