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There’s a broader point here, which is that just as the US is artificially – and unfairly – being left with all responsibility for global economic growth, so it is being unfairly left with all responsibility for global security too, which is partly why its economy is over-strained by defence spending. Whenever a new security issue emerges – Syria’s assassination of Lebanese politicians, Iran’s attempts to acquire nuclear weapons – the US is the only military superpower capable of seriously threatening force if the guilty country doesn’t comply with the wishes of the ‘international community’. The EU, meanwhile, threatens economic sanctions because it doesn’t have anything else to threaten with. So the US is always the bad cop to the EU’s good cop.

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