The security gathering shows the U.S. and Europe have very different views on health of transatlantic relations
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In speech after speech, whether in public or private, European leaders lamented what they perceive as the U.S.’s disengagement from both the region and the world at large. French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the forum for the first time, echoed Steinmeier the next day, noting that “what Europe wants is not quite the same as the U.S.”“Let’s be straight up: The U.S. is out there fighting for sovereignty and our friends."“I’m here to tell you the facts,” an agitated U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeothe assembly on Saturday after quoting Steinmeier and similar comments other Western leaders have made in the recent past.
Aside from representatives from Poland and the Baltics, who consider the U.S. the guarantor of their sovereignty, few of the Europeans in the room seemed open to being convinced. After the speech, a consensus formed among the Germans and French that Pompeo’s audience wasn’t the Europeans in the room, but Donald Trump. Pompeo’s insistence that the “West is winning, we’re collectively winning,” was registered by many attendees as “the U.S. is winning.
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