PARIS — Dozens of leaders from around the world marched in the soaking rain down the Champs Élysées on Sunday, expressing unity for an international order that had its origins in the long run of a world battle a hundred years ago, an order now underneath increasing stress on both sides of the Atlantic. Only after these leaders arrived by way of toot on the Arc de Triomphe did President Trump show up, sheltered from the rain, as he made a personal front. A couple of minutes later, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia did the same.
For Mr. Trump, at least, the separate arrival turned into attributed to protection issues. But somehow it felt apt that these two leaders might not arrive with the crowd. No one has accomplished more to break up the postwar global order within the ultimate couple of years than Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin. As the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I turned into a venerated day on Sunday, Mr. Trump’s brand of “America First” nationalism turned into a rebuke from the podium, even as he sat stone-faced and unmoved, alienated from some of America’s strongest allies, along with his French hosts.
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But at the same time, as he may also have been out of step with most of the leaders collected around him, Mr. Trump remains at the leading edge of forces that can redefine the Western political paradigm in nations like Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Turkey. In Britain and Germany, two of the Continent’s major powers, nationalist movements have upended the establishment.
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Led with the aid of President Emmanuel Macron of France, global leaders marched down the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday. Criteria Feferberg/Agence France-Presse Getty Images. So a rite meant to rejoice the ties that bind the arena today in impact showcased the divisions that are pulling it apart.
“Patriotism is the complete opposite of nationalism,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said in a speech on the Arc de Triomphe, welcoming the leaders and extolling a vintage system now under siege. “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism, utilizing the phrase: ‘Our interest first. Who cares approximately the others?” Recalling the forces that brought about World War I, Mr. Macron warned that “the vintage demons” were resurfacing and declared that “giving in to the fascination for withdrawal, isolationism, violence, and domination could be a grave mistake that future generations might very rightly make us answerable for.”
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Mr. Trump, who later declared himself “a nationalist,” appeared grim as he listened to the speech through an earpiece and clapped simply tepidly in a while. He had no talking role and made no point out of the problems Mr. Macron raised at some point to cope with later at a cemetery for American foot soldiers killed in the struggle. The ceremony led by Mr. Macron encapsulated the tension in the international arena as Mr. Trump seeks to rewrite the policies that have governed the arena in the latest a long time. He has abandoned global agreements on alternative nuclear proliferation and whether exchange and disparaged alliances like NATO and the European Union.
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On the campaign trail this fall, Mr. Trump railed against what he referred to as the “rule of corrupt, strength-hungry globalists,” as he placed it at a rally in Houston. “You recognize what a globalist is, right? Do you recognize what a globalist is? A globalist is a person who wishes the globe to do well, frankly, no longer being concerned about our use of a lot. And you realize what? We can’t have that.” Mr. Macron has now, in effect, given a rebuttal. In addition to the speech, he extensively utilized an interview with Fareed Zakaria of CNN that aired Sunday to outline himself as “a patriot” rather than a “nationalist.”
“I do protect my USA,” Mr. Macron stated. “I do accept as true that we’ve got a sturdy identification. But I’m a robust believer in cooperation between the different peoples, and I’m a sturdy believer in the reality that this cooperation is good for everybody, wherein the nationalists are once in a while tons greater based on a unilateral method and the rule of the strongest, which is not my case.” Despite the friction with Mr. Macron, Mr. Trump’s views were embraced with the aid of different Western leaders, some of whom, like Viktor Orban in Hungary, have made an anti-immigrant stance the keystone of their coverage.
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