Reuters, 28/04 15:34 CET
By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) – Donald
Trump’s first major foreign policy address alarmed American allies, who
view the Republican front runner’s repeated invocation of an “America
first” agenda as a threat to retreat from the world.
While most governments were careful not to comment
publicly on a speech by a U.S. presidential candidate, Germany’s foreign
minister veered from that protocol to express concern at Trump’s
wording.
“I can only hope that the election campaign in the USA does not lack the perception of reality,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
“The world’s security architecture has changed and it is
no longer based on two pillars alone. It cannot be conducted
unilaterally,” he said of foreign policy in a post-Cold War world. “No
American president can get round this change in the international
security architecture…. ‘America first’ is actually no answer to that.”
Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister and foreign
minister who served as UN envoy to the Balkans in the aftermath of the
Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, said he heard Trump’s speech as “abandoning
both democratic allies and democratic values”.
“Trump had not a word against Russian aggression in
Ukraine, but plenty against past U.S. support for democracy in Egypt,”
Bildt said on Twitter, referring to lines from Trump’s speech that criticized the Barack Obama administration for withdrawing support for
autocrat Hosni Mubarak during a 2011 uprising.
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Source: Euronews
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