by Con Coughlin June 6, 2019 US officials were shocked when Angela Merkel said she had no intention of meeting the target [of minimum defence spending of 2 percent of GDP] by …………………….
The Transatlantic Relationship on the 75th Anniversary of D-Day
Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence…. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson (1799)