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“The world must be safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted on the tested foundations of political liberation.” These are the words of President Woodrow Wilson in April 1917 in the Eve of America’s first war.
Over a century ago, Donald Trump began a very different global mission. US president makes the world safe for autocracy.
Trump’s statement That Ukraine is responsible for one’s own invasion and that VolyonMyrr Zelenskyy is a dictator a clue clearly.
By aligning himself to the Kremlin propaganda, the president of the United States showed that Trump’s America was absolutely happy to see Russia win this war and crushed Ukraine.
European and Ukrainian diplomats from US-Russia Talk – continue to try if it is possible to get America to support security guarantees for Ukraine. But the rest of Trump’s interest in Ukraine seems to be predatory – witness he demanded that the country is primarily in a large portion of the US mineral wealth.
Identification that money is one of the few things that trump trumps, Russians reached the Saudi Arabian talks with a long list of business tests. The US sanctions are expected in Russia to be lifted shortly.
There are few more Europe trying to rationalize all this. They argue, based on little evidence, Trump does not want Russia to win the war. Some say it’s all about a clever manipulation in the US to get rid of China.
But the serious truth is that Vladimir Putin and Trump were united in their mocking for European democracies. In the past this month, Putin As That trumpet “restores order” in Europe and in European countries “everyone will stand at the foot of the master and gentle to their tails”. Those convinsters have been changed by Trump on social media.
As for China, Trump declares his praise to Xi Jinping almost always as he expanded to Putin. He said he wanted to strike an agreement with the Chinese strong leader. So it looks like the Trump finally betray Taiwan As surely as he betrayed Ukraine.
The Gossip Mill in Washington has been buzzed with the US threat to impose Taiwan tariffs unless it is the main TSMC type, to an American buyer. If the US reduces its confidence in Taiwanese semiconductors, then the road can be open for America to leave Taiwan.
A world where Russia, China and US are all contrary to liberal democracy will never make the European people. But while there is a cause for alarm, despair is not necessary. European countries have many resources that are protected themselves – and began to recognize the reality and answer it.
Friedrich MerzWho is preparing to be a new Chancellor in Germany after the Sunday Bundest election, recently said: “We must prepare for the possibility that Donald Donald Trump is no longer notal condition Donald Trump is not the condition of noatal to overlaw defcection unconditionally. ” Merz broke another taboo by suggesting Germany to talk to France and Britain about “nuclear sharing” – so that the Germans have no longer dependent on the Umbrella in American nuclear.
European vulnerabilities are well known: slow growth, high debt, small militaries, a slow moving of the EU – and the increase in extremist parties that look at Putin and Trump.
But a united Europe also has a terrible force that needs to be remembered and calls. EU and UK, combined, there is an economy of about 12 times the size of Russia. EU is the world’s largest exporters made goods and services, and a greater trade power than the US.
Europe makes the world primarily scientific. It has a solid industry basis. The fact that European countries follow the rule of law is important for business and draw investments, because the contempt of the Trump administration is more clear.
Rapidly increases Spend the defense on a pan-european basis fully obtainable. The co-operation between Britain, France and Germany are increasing and can join the EU slowly.
Europe feels risky now. But there is a network of advanced liberal democracies around the world who want to work in Europe and UK – including Japan, South Korea, Australia and Canada.
Europeans should also think from the mind that this dark time in the US does not last forever. Liberal US forces retreat, but they do not lose. Trump administration’s order and hubres make it perfectly possible that the action of maga will blame immediately.
Europeans and their democratic allies around the world have to continue – confidently their values last, as they have done before.
As Wilson placed it in 1917: “We will fight for the things we often bring to the nearest of our hearts – for democracy, for the right to their own governments, for rights and liberty in small countries. “
America is on the wrong side of that fight today. EU and UK can – and must – continue to struggle.
