Here’s Merkel praising China’s totalitarianism and attacking democracy. We can work with European countries where it makes sense, but it’s time to come to grips with Western Europe being in China’s sphere. Democracy has lost its legitimacy in Europe. 
After reading this I can’t see how NATO is viable without significant restructuring. The US needs to have a hard conversation with our allies about whether they want access to our markets and defense umbrella. wsj.com/articles/angel…
I spoke in Germany a few years ago at a political conference and the normies in the audience asked Chinese speakers tough questions on human rights. The German political elites were offended that their own people were so rude.
There is significant technological interdependency between the US and Europe. I honestly don’t know a coherent path forward. Neither side seems to want to make their own political system functional.
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