Harvey’s Introduction
This is an extraordinarily important article that captures the essence of the issues we have with our most important allies in Europe. Relations are sour with many of those countries, but its not because of personality differences with European leaders who disagree with Trump’s America First policy. it is because they view their strategic interests as different from ours and they want us to more heavily weigh their interests. They want broad and deep economic arrangements with countries that our adversaries – China, Russia and Iran – most notably while having us provide a security blanket for them and supporting their efforts to greater economic linkages to our enemies. Biden thinks he can solve the relationship problem but he can do so only by betraying American interests. On this one, I sincerely hope I’m wrong , but I fear I am not. Unfortunately, Biden is not particularly smart and his advisors love signed agreements too much.