Since thefleeting days after the unifying attacks of September 11th 2001, the century has not been kind to expectations that the world’s democracies would work together effectively. America’s costly wars and erratic leadership, Germany’s preference for engagement over confrontation, Britain’s rejection of the European Union, the backsliding of Poland and Hungary: even before President Joe Biden bungled America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, such interrelated developments weighed on hopes that he would reinvigorate not justnatobut also, perhaps, the promise of liberal democracy itself. His one bold thrust in that direction—a new trilateral pact with Australia and Britain, to contain China—managed to blindside and anger Emmanuel Macron of France, reinforcing the conviction in the Elysée Palace that Europe should develop “strategic autonomy”.
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