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Europeans got blue blinders in wake of midterm sweep
The Democratic sweep of the midterm elections has been greeted with a wary relief across Europe. After two years of President Donald Trump's tariffs, threats to annex Greenland and scolding of European NATO allies on defense spending, many European politicians see the Republican defeat as a welcome course correction. Yet the reactions also expose the contradictions of the European Union’s own foreign policy, particularly toward the wars in Iran and Ukraine.Rather than examining the causes of Trump’s defeat, EU leaders have chosen to interpret it as a vindication of their own ideological belief
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