According to France 24, the G7 summit's real achievement was keeping the transatlantic alliance together despite serious disagreements. Leaders clashed on trade, climate, NATO, and Ukraine—topics that would fracture many coalitions. But the alliance held. As international relations expert Manuel Muñiz puts it, finding this many simultaneous disagreements across the Atlantic would have been unthinkable just decades ago. The lesson: in diplomacy, unity itself is the victory.

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