Is This the End of the Atlantic Alliance?
BYD Co., the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles, reported that sales in August increased 0.2% from the same month last year. That rate was down from July’s year-on-year increase of 0.6% and the 12.0% jump in June. The company’s car production in August dropped 3.8% year-on-year. In July, Lindsey Graham cringed when U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt, America’s deputy military representative to NATO, presented him in the summer of 2015 with “a truth the senator did not want to hear.”
“The clear and present danger to Europe is unchecked Islamist migration, which threatens to destroy European culture, values, economy, and security,” Holt told the South Carolina Republican. “The threat to European security posed by Russia is a distant second.”
A decade later, the general has not changed his mind.
