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Can Europe survive Trump’s ‘wrecking ball’ politics?
As delegates to the Munich Security Conference assess the damage done to the old world order, the demolition continues with no clear solution in sight.
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“Trump whisperer” Mark Rutte practising the tricky art of managing the US President on behalf of NATO at their meeting in Davos in January.
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A year ago, almost to the day, US Vice-President J.D. Vance used his attendance at the Munich Security Conference – the world’s biggest gathering of world leaders and top military commanders – to castigate America’s closest allies
Europe’s biggest threat, Mr Vance argued, does not come from the Russians or the challenges posed by China’s rise, but from its own leaders, who silence any criticism of their supposedly politically correct ideas while allowing hordes of migrants to dilute the continent’s Christian values.
