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Biden may seem to personify an old-school nostalgic Atlanticism of the foreign policy establishment.

However Germany decides on Huawei, Atlanticism as a concept is largely dead in Europe.

“The politics of Brexit are more about a desire for increased sovereignty than a preference for Atlanticism over Europeanism,” said Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute.

Drawing on Haushofer’s German writings, he argued that Russia should become a Eurasian bastion against “the conspiracy of ‘Atlanticism’ led by the United States and NATO... aimed at containing Russia within successive geographic rings” of the former Soviet republics.

American Atlanticism has diminished, is diminishing and will continue to diminish.