“In battle, nothing is ever as good or bad as the first reports of excited men would have it.”
—Field Marshall Viscount SlimLet’s hope that same caution applies to presidential transition geopolitics too, because the first reports from the Trump transition are very bad indeed.Among America’s oldest and truest allies, the reaction to the election of Donald Trump has ranged from horror to terror, sometimes including large elements of each. Nowhere, though, does the reaction look more dangerous than inside the most powerful state on the European continent, Germany.The morning after Donald Trump’s victory, German Chancellor Angela Merkel released a cooly …read more
Source: The Atlantic
