Global Leadership Vacuum: Europe Incapable, America Unwilling

Source: The Spiegel.

An Analysis By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Munich

US President Obama with Vice President Biden: "A decade of war is now ending."Zoom

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US President Obama with Vice President Biden: “A decade of war is now ending.”

US Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Germany this week in an effort to strengthen trans-Atlantic ties. Global politics have come to a standstill in recent years, with the United States unwilling to show leadership and Europe and other major powers unable to fill the vacuum.

Ernest Rutherford, the chemist and nuclear physicist, wanted to conduct massive experiments in his laboratories in Britain. He had won the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry and would go on to become one of the legends in his field. But he often simply didn’t have the funds. Legend has it that he gathered together his team and said: “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It’s time to start thinking.”

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  1. The article concluded, “Indeed, rather than making progress, it is much more likely that the world will shift into reverse. Europe isn’t in a position to provide decisive leadership. And the US doesn’t want to anymore”.
    Above is factual sentence. Leadership emerges on the planet to achieve some high visioned goals. Economically and technically USA and Europe already achieved the maximum. Masses of both the entities are enjoying life much better relative to the masses elsewhere in the world. Humanity as whole however is suffering in Africa and Asia. Service to man kind is the high visioned goal which still searching real global leader. Since politically and economically oriented leadership of USA and Europe has restricted its vision to the welfafe of its own people as such this vacuum has emerged. Braoden the vision and start considering the welfare of whole mankind the vacuum will disappear.

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