The allies of the United States were in a state of suspension on Wednesday.
As the vote count continued to decide between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, each speculated on the consequences of the vote for their collective security.
And on what would not change, whatever the outcome: a second term for the populist billionaire or the election of the Democrat.
Finally, the uncertainties had not been lifted Wednesday at the end of the day.
The period of tension which will open up in any case in the United States does not bode well for the engagement of the American gendarme in the world.
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The uproar hits NATO hard.
After being elected in 2016, Donald Trump had expressed all the harm he thought of this institution
"obsolete"
in his eyes for which the Europeans did not pay enough according to him.
He hadn't gone so far as to break up, however, as some feared.
Neither the Senate nor Congress would undoubtedly have followed it.
But the diagnosis was
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