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President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned his fellow Germans against viewing political and social problems in the United States with smug superiority, given the increasing divisions and radical politics at home in Germany. “In my view, we look across the Atlantic with far too much arrogance and think that what has been happening in the United States for many years has nothing to do with us,” Steinmeier said on Friday at a conference organized by the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspapers. “But we do not live on an island.” Steinmeier said that Germany is still a long way from what has “manifeste…

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