Jacob Heilbrunn
Politics, Europe
For now, Merkel is maintaining a stiff upper lip when it comes to the Trump administration.
Angela Merkel was dubbed the leader of the free world on the eve of her visit to see Donald Trump. The stakes, we were told, could not be higher. The Atlantic alliance was at stake. The future of NATO in peril. Merkel’s buddy-buddy relationship with George W. Bush and Barack Obama was over. Confrontation, not cooperation, would be the order of the day.
Not so fast. The meeting and joint press conference on Friday between the two leaders proved rather anticlimactic. …read more
Source: The National Interest
