Trump Says Globalism Is a Threat to 'the West.' Macron Says Trump Is.
July 13, 2017
10:52 am
By Eric Levitz
Last week in Poland, Donald Trump declared, “the fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.”
“Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders?” the president asked. “Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?”
On Thursday, Emmanuel Macron answered these questions in the affirmative — by reiterating his commitment to protecting the European Union from Donald J. Trump.
Ahead of Trump’s trip to Paris, the French president told Ouest France that the Western world “has been cracking since the American election.”
“The United States expresses doubts about multilateralism, the U.N., the WTO and the climate,” Macron said, according to a translation from Politico. “The world order of 1945, recomposed after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is now in crisis … In this context, Europe is an absolute necessity.”
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