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The basis for the U.S.’s global leadership—vast power leavened with restraint—has been called into question by President Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling and willingness to exploit U.S. strengths for narrow, self-interested purposes, argues Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of Global Affairs Canada

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 27, 2018

OTTAWA—“Yesterday some Jews were arrested here in order to be deported,” a German officer recorded in his diary in Paris in July 1942. “First they separated the parents from their children, so firmly that one could hear the distressed cries in the streets,” wrote Ernst Jünger, as quoted ...

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