{"id":11272,"date":"2018-07-13T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11272"},"modified":"2018-07-13T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T01:26:04","slug":"why-europe-gets-no-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-europe-gets-no-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Europe Gets No Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>After the recent G-7 meeting, some European nations such as France and Germany expressed anger that their views were given short shrift by Donald Trump\u2014displaying fits of pique memorialized in a now infamous photo of standing G-7 leaders who were leaning into a surrounded and sitting Trump. \u201cInternational cooperation,\u201d huffed an unidentified senior French official, \u201ccannot depend on being angry and on sound bites. Let&#8217;s be serious.\u201d The former British ambassador to the U.S., Peter Westmacott, sniffed, \u201cTrump is readier to give a pass to countries that pose a real threat to Western values and security than to America\u2019s traditional allies. If there is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2018\/06\/08\/front-bench-boris-johnsons-comments-pointing-obvious-wont-change\/\">\u2018method to the madness,\u2019 to use the words of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson<\/a>, it is currently well hidden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/why-europe-gets-no-respect\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution After the recent G-7 meeting, some European nations such as France and Germany expressed anger that their views were given short shrift by Donald Trump\u2014displaying fits of pique memorialized in a now infamous photo of standing G-7 leaders who were leaning into a surrounded and sitting Trump. \u201cInternational cooperation,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1135,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2VO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12703,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/donald-trump-counterrevolutionary\/","url_meta":{"origin":11272,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump, Counterrevolutionary","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Until Donald Trump\u2019s arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized\u2014with the United States increasingly its greatest and most \u201cwoke\u201d advocate. 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