At the opening of the Munich Security Conference on Friday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the rise of self-serving nationalism poses the greatest risk to the world's prosperity and to the generations that will follow us.
Without naming them, he was critical of the US, China and Russia.
"Blinkers and short-sightedness will also generate higher costs for the bigger players.
German foreign minister Heiko Maas was also critical of the behaviour of the world's super powers.
The title of this year's conference is 'Westlessness' - a sense of the growing feeling of unease about the identity, the purpose and maybe even the demise of life in the West as we know it.
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Hi Michael - how right you are about the unbridled ungraciousness of a lot of world politics. My saying is "Happy people don't do or say things like that" It seems to me that they have a love-shaped hole in their heart, waiting for some of us to come along and fill it up. Our challenge is to 'love the person and hate the sin' but it is tough going. Regards and God bless. Elizabeth
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