Trump’s gifts for Europe have come in bundles in recent days. Below are the list.
Portfarms on steel and aluminum with promises for more soon.
A 90 -minute phone call with Putin, without going through the European opinion and without sharing them in the results.
A statement from the US Secretary of Defense that the US will no longer play a major role in ensuring Europe’s security.
Another message from the Minister of Defense that there is no “realistic” chance that Ukraine will return to the borders of 2014, before the Russian invasion, or is allowed to join the NATO alliance.
A message from the same minister that no one American soldier would participate in a multinational force for saving peace in Ukraine.
And finally, the amazing lane, the most worthwhile ending for a historic week: unprecedented attack by the Deputy USA on European Democracy.
On Saturday night, we heard that next month Trump and Putin will be carried out on Saudi Arabia. Ukraine President will not be invited. The US and Russia’s foreign ministers spoke during the Sabbath about establishing friendship and collaboration relations, including the renewal of trade, and in any case the removal of sanctions. Europe did not share a decision and will not be invited to participate in the peace process in Ukraine.
This week, a French newspaper wrote about all his first page, “Ukraine Beda Sit.” Belgian newspaper crowned the gate in the words “Europe is sitting.” Dutch newspaper: “Fear of Death Fills the hearts of Europe.” Spanish newspaper: “Trample attacks Europe.”
“American is going home,” the Berlin newspaper ‘Tegszitja
“NATO is dead”
In fact, it was all expected, in the same sense that Trump was preceded by his illumination to Europe, his complete indifference to the idea of the unity of the West and his defenses and his visible affection for Vladimir Putin and the regime.
European senior officials discovered that Trump told the EU Commission’s senior officials in 2020, at the end of his previous presidency: “You must understand that if Europe is attacked, we will never come to your help and not support you … NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will retire.”
“Trump no longer wants to ensure European security – are we able to protect ourselves at all?
The Minister of Defense Peter Poter in Munich, which the US intends to direct her attention to its own boundaries and competition with China, raises the question of whether NATO approaches an end. It was established in 1949 to end the Soviet spread west. In the three years after World War II, the Soviets took over all of Europe, to Berlin to Vienna. A massive communist subversion threatened to scoop France and Italy.
The US began defending Europe in 1947, when President Truman informed “The Simpage Doctrine,” and placed a protective wall along the boundaries of Turkey and Greece, which were then targets for Soviet subversion.
NATO filled its purpose, and could be argued in favor of dismantling in the early 1990s, after the Soviet bloc ceased to exist. There were welcomes here and there. She was also a collective security arrangement, which made sure to keep peace between his friends. Much of NATO companies used to go against each other. Their companies in NATO put an end to this danger.
Then, from 1999, NATO began to spread east, toward the Russian border. Apart from two (Sweden and Finland), some of the Soviet bloc were part of the Soviet Union.
JD Vance declares an ideological war on Europe, “French” La Mond “(February 15) announces
Indifference and contempt for European
This is not Trump’s opinion. He thinks that NATO expansion, and then the talk of another extension, which brought Russia to invade. She wants to be accommodated all NATO’s extended military structure, and the alliance will retreat to its easternest line before 1999, on the German-Polin border. Until last week it was a dream in aspirations. In fact, even if not, any military activity on European land.
Today there is a regular presence of 70,000 American soldiers in Europe, in 28 bases. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the United States has established an active and broad military presence in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, and less presence in the Baltic countries. It is difficult to describe the political and strategic results of evacuating all these forces. The feeling of a fate partnership.
A dramatic expression of the partnership dismantled on Friday from the eradication of US President JD WI put, at the International Security Conference in Munich. He previously expressed indifference and contempt for the Europeans. A year ago, being a startup, a meeting of the same conference itself between American lawmakers and President Ukraine and its foreign minister. “I didn’t think I had something to learn,” he was hidden then.
On Friday, and raped went away. Unlike Trump, he did not only talk about financing or war goals; It attacked the very European liberal democracy, accusing it of restricting the freedom of speech of its opponents. The attendees were in shock. When Wans made a rhetorical break, as speakers expect applause, a quiet chill and astonishment in the courtroom. It is doubtful that in the last century, such an ideological attack has been heard against European democracy from a senior American leader.
And Ranns directed his criticism of the refusal of traditional democratic parties, to the left and right, to establish coalitions with the populist, political and mental right to Trump. To teach you his mouth and his heart are equal, and in Munich he met the leaders of “alternative for Germany”, the extreme right -wing movement that is facing the general election next week. No German party, including the ruling party and the main opposition party, are unwilling to share the “alternative” in the next coalition. Vance showed where he was standing.
This anti-European gesture has been sits with ideological preferences that have evolved in recent years on the Trumpy right. In contrast to the conservative right of the previous generation, the Trumpists Bezef to European Liberal Democracy, and disintegrate the non-liberal democracy of Hungary, for example. They made Budapest a pilgrimage site, and Prime Minister Victor Urban, a cultural hero, “Trump before Trump.”
The drug is therefore dramatic to the historic connection that connected the US with Europe. Europe succeeded in finding an internal power to stabilize its own legs? Who knows. We know, on the other hand, the US President does not care. If at all, he will be filled with joy.