Shortly after securing election as the German chancellor last year, Friedrich Merz effectively declared the end of Pax Americana and said that indulging nostalgia for the days of dependable U.S. security assurances was futile. Since then, in the spectrum of Europe’s various postures for dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump, Merz’s lies somewhere in the middle—not quite as obsequious as NATO chief Mark Rutte, who described Trump as Europe’s “daddy,” nor as combative as French President

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