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Macron and Merkel, no saviors of the West, bend before Putin

By Tom Rogan
Published November 29, 2018 9:46pm ET
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Macron and Merkel, no saviors of the West, bend before Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brigitte Macron, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of the First World War at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. | (Benoit Tessier/Pool Photo via AP)

It’s all the fashion these days to claim that President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany are the leading defenders of the liberal world order.

It’s all the fashion, but it’s also all false.

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