'We Have a Real Problem.' U.S. Is at Odds With European Allies, Munich Meeting Shows
2019-02-18 12:08:14 source：TIME
February 17, 2019
At the close of this year’s annual gathering of the transatlantic security community in Munich Sunday, its organizer Wolfgang Ischinger — a former German ambassador to the U.S. — offered a bleak conclusion: “We have a real problem.’’
The nature of that problem was on display throughout the three-day event: The U.S. is at odds with not only its great power rivals Russia and China, but also with its allies in Europe and elements of the international system that Washington itself was largely responsible for building.
Just as tangible was a fear that the glue of shared democratic values that has bound together western countries with historically different economic and security interests is dissolving.
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