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Biden’s Europe Trip Is an End, Not a New Beginning
The pomposity of the “New Atlantic Charter” makes a mockery of the old transatlantic alliance.
Blinded.
Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden’s visit to Europe has prompted a flood of enthusiastic rhetoric. This reflects the relief shared in most of the continent’s capitals about the change of White House tenant.
“Today is a good day for Denmark and for transatlantic cooperation,” exulted the Danish foreign minister, welcoming U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Copenhagen ahead of Biden’s arrival in Britain for the G-7 meeting, “because today, America is back.”