In the aftermath of a contentious Group of 7 meeting in Taormina, Sicily, where leaders failed to persuade President Trump to back the Paris climate accord, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said on Sunday that tried and tested global alliances were no longer as reliable as they once were, citing her experience “in recent days.”
Ms. Merkel, who is campaigning for a fourth term in the September elections, did not name the country or leader she had in mind.
It seemed clear, however, that she was referring mainly to the United States and Mr. Trump, who refused to commit to the goals of the 195-nation climate agreement hammered out in 2015. He has said it would be bad for the United States economy.
“The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over,” she said, according to German news media. “This is what I experienced in the last few days.”
And just like that decades of friendship between the United States and Germany come to a close.
I guess this what the White House meant by a "successful" trip.
Here was an observation by former Bush speechwriter David Frum:
This presidency is now officially an international crisis.Since 1945, the supreme strategic goal in Europe of the USSR and then Russia was the severing of the US-German alliance. Trump delivered.— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 28, 2017
How much longer can it be before even the Republicans in Washington realize that everything that America has fought and stood for is now hanging in the balance?
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