Balance of Power

Trump Steps Into a Transatlantic Rift at Davos

As the US president takes a wrecking ball to the world order, EU leaders hope to dissuade him in Switzerland.
US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington yesterday.Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg

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There’s no shortage of monuments to US-German friendship in Berlin, the city most closely associated with the Cold War and America’s leading role in European security.