Angela Merkel Is Not the ‘Leader of the Free World’
When Donald Trump was elected president, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany carefully drew a line between them. She offered cooperation, but with the caveat that it should be based on Western values like, in her words, “freedom, respect for the law, and the dignity of man independent of origin, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political views.” Such moral clarity earned her legions of fans abroad; pundits took to calling her the new “leader of the free world.”
Most of those pundits were, notably, not German. In contrast, experts familiar with Germany’s strategic culture — or lack thereof — were skeptical about whether the German government could follow through on what it meant to actually lead the free world.… Seguir leyendo »