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The limits of being the world’s bully

U.S. allies at the 2017 G-7 summit in Sicily; this year’s meeting could be more awkward

ON MAY 31, THE SAME DAY THE TRUMP Administration announced steel and aluminum tariffs against the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron placed a call to President Trump. It didn’t go well. Hoping perhaps to draw on goodwill fostered by the congenial time they spent together in Washington in April—just before Trump disappointed Macron by withdrawing the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal—the French President decided to try some straight talk

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