{"id":93934,"date":"2016-04-21T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93934"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:02:31","slug":"politico-trump-terrifies-world-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93934","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Trump terrifies world leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico<\/a>: They\u2019re worried about what it means for them: for their arms deals, for their trade deals, for international funding and alliances that they depend on.<\/p>\n

…Then there are the more parochial concerns: that Trump\u2019s rise will encourage and empower their own nationalists.<\/p>\n

…The Israelis are walking their own weird tightrope: Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has been perennially at odds with the Obama administration, but with the prime minister condemning the Muslim ban proposal and ducking a meeting on what was supposed to be a Trump tour of the Holy Land in December \u2014 all while his U.S. ambassador and confidant, Ron Dermer, consulted with the candidate\u2019s son-in-law, who was writing Trump\u2019s speech to AIPAC last month.<\/p>\n

…Certainly, there\u2019s some schadenfreude at play, too, particularly in Germany. After years of being lectured about democracy by Americans, they\u2019re taking in over a million refugees while Trump\u2019s talking about a ban on Muslim immigration. That say that gives them the moral high ground, and a sense of the erosion of America\u2019s soft power in Europe.
\nBut all over the world, leaders are trying to decipher how serious Trump is about what he\u2019s saying. Some are convinced he\u2019ll back away from the policies he\u2019s espoused on the campaign trail, while others worry that he\u2019ll have to stick to at least some of it \u2014 and for them, any percentage would be a problem. In Germany, for example, gauging Trump\u2019s commitment to his promises is the extent to which they\u2019ve brought him up with their American counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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