The conversation at this weekend's Halifax International Security Forum, a gathering of leading democracies, centered less on fears about enemy capabilities and much more on signs of the West’s own deepening unease
Within the major democracies, populist rabble-rousers are on the march, powered by social media and puffed up by economic discontent, dislocation and voters’ disillusionment with leaders who haven’t delivered on their promises. For every inspiring example of people power in places like Hong Kong, Iran and Sudan, there are equally alarming cases of countries sliding back into “illiberal democracy,” as in Hungary, or simply dysfunction and paralysis, as in the United Kingdom.
The impending British exit from the European Union is more subtly but unmistakably destabilizing the power dynamics among European countries, tempting French President Emanuel Macron to seize a leading role in Britain’s absence.
And the impeachment inquiry in Washington is only helping Russia sow mischief and division in the United States and Europe, according to former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, who sought to steer clear of the sharply partisan wrangling over Burisma and the Bidens. McCain’s proteges, many of whom were in attendance, differed on what the Arizona senator would have made of the present moment. One guessed that McCain would have built coalitions across the aisle on the issues he cared about, including confronting China and Russia and shoring up NATO; another said he would have warned his colleagues against thinking they could manage Trump.
The emotional climax of the event came when McCain’s widow, Cindy, awarded a prize in his honor to “the people of Hong Kong,” whose struggle was introduced with a video interspersing footage of the young fighter pilot’s captivity in Hanoi with clips of street battles with police in Hong Kong.
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