Europe alone and in a shock on a day

It is worrying to remember the moving ceremony on the shores of Normandy, which was distinguished by the eighty anniversary of D 11 months ago, and it is a celebration of the IronClad alliance between the United States and Europe, and their common intention to meet the “tested ages” and defend Ukraine.

This phrase was from former President Joseph R. Biden Junior, who was existing with a shoulder with President Emmanuel Macron from France, is part of the title in which NATO declared “more than ever” and pledged that “we will not walk far away, because if we do that, Ukraine will be subjected and this will not end.”

I stood in the sunlight in Normandy, and I contemplate the youth from Kansas City and St. Paul and other places who climbed on the beach on June 6, 1944, to tricks from the Nazi Nazmondi fire, and listening to the words that put a direct line between their unique courage in defending freedom and the other conflict “Tyrant bent on the peak.”

For Mr. Biden, President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia, since he exempted him from the responsibility for the war he started in Ukraine by President Trump, the first leader in America, who was cognitive in the United States, to “the required”.

I never imagined, less than a year ago, that very dear to many can reveal very quickly; Also, the eighties on Thursday of VE, or victory in Europe, will come with many Europeans no longer sure whether America will consider Mr. Trump an ally or opponent.

“It is night and day,” said Rima Abdel -Malak, the former French Minister of Culture, in an interview. “Trump has occupied the whole space in our heads and the world appears to be disturbed.”

Whatever it was under the collapse of executive orders, the turbulent beginning of Mr. Trump’s second presidency witnessed a major disclosure of a bond across the Atlantic Ocean that brought peace and prosperity of size and unusual period, according to historical standards. He took a wreckage to the post -war matter. What is the new dispensation that will appear from the chaos unclear.

Of course, sudden or interview revolutions are a frequent theme for history. Just four years before the heroic allies in Normandy, who is considering the disaster of France’s defeat almost overnight, fell to Hitler Vermacht in June 1940, Paul Valerie, a French poet and author, wrote:

“We are in an irresistible terrifying slope. Nothing we can fear impossible; we can fear and palm almost anything.”

Perhaps the same thing can be said today, even in a globalized world. Certainty came, raising the ghost. Fear spread, in Europe as in the United States. The Europeans get the phone free phones, for the visits of the United States, as if they were heading to Iran.

The targeting of Mr. Trump for the best universities, which is protected by the first amendment, international students, immigrants, judicial independence and the same truth in the pursuit of the executive authority that seems unlimited to talk about the “police state in the form”, in the words of Bruno Fox, head of the French National Assembly, after a recent visit.

“This will be this great TV,” said Mr. Trump, after his general insult to Vulodimir Zelinski, Ukrainian president, at the White House on February 28, if America would prove the autocracy. The world, or a lot of it, was roasted as due to Mr. Trump Mr. Zellinski accused the Inghattude It is risk in the World War, by fighting the aggressor, at a time when he had no “cards”.

This presidential performance appears to be a collapse point for Europe, where many leaders saw it as ethical tests.

A few days later, on March 5, Mr. Macron announced“It is no longer possible to guarantee peace on our continent.”

Mr. Trump, as is his swinging custom, has since tried to fix the fences with Mr. Zellinski while announcing his hatred for him. The metal deal, whose details remain mysterious, were signed between the United States and Ukraine. Apparently, you will participate in America in Ukraine for some time, even if Mr. Trump’s pursuit stops a peace deal.

Europe, for its part, does not wait for the next Mr. Trump’s deviation. He saw enough to become determined to get rid of what was called by Vice President JD VANCE “VASSAL”, one in a series of insults targeting NATO allies. Mr. Trump says that one of these ally should be waived, and the other should be welcomed by absorption in the United States.

Friedrich Mirz, the new advisor in Germany, took directly to Paris on Wednesday to meet Mr. Macron. The two leaders unite in the search for what Mr. Mirz called “independence” and what Mr. Macron calls “strategic self -government” from Washington, which is a major transformation. Writing in the French diary Lu FigaroThey said they “will never accept peace and will continue to support Ukraine against the Russian aggression.”

One idea is being discussed, Daily Le Monde mentionedIt is a return to the shores of D-Day after 80 years of surrendering the third Reich to obtain a common image Echo image of Francois Mitran and Hemot Cole, the former French and German leaders, Hold his hands In the First World War, the Battle of Verdon.

That image is from 1984, along with the image of Counselor Willie Brandt from Germany On his knees in 1970 Before the memorial of the Warsaw Language, is one of the most powerful symbols in the birth of a unified Europe.

The German alliance of Franco has always been the European Union engine. If it is exaggerated, the rearmament of Europe, as a military force but also as a guardian of the values ​​that fought America in World War II, appears to be reasonable in the medium term.

“Bold, boldness again, boldness always!” George Jacques Danton, a leading figure of the French Revolution, said. If there is nothing else, Mr. Trump has shown it. People are destroyed, and they are transferred to the amazement of memory loss, by a flow.

David Axelrod, chief strategic expert in Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, told me: “He is Pavlov and we are dogs.”

Europe will have to respond with a different type of audacity if this must develop strategic power to suit its long -standing position as an economic giant. Germany, is obligated to history to rid the bird, but aware that this position runs its path, it is certain that it carries the key to any such transformation. It faces the tremendous challenge of absorbing the consequences of a new world of raw force as it seems that the rules and law are directed at least at the present time, to a lower account.

But Europe is rarely united, whatever determination is in Paris and Berlin. The national wave anti -migration, anti -science, anti -transition that swept Mr. Trump last year, is also strong across a continent as it enabled Victor Urban in Hungary and Georgia Meloni in Italy, among other things.

The emerging parties in the far right, including the alternative to Germany, or AFD, and the National Rally in France, reflect the anger of the Europeans who feel uninterrupted, isolated, poorer, and ignoring them by urban elites, just like their counterparts in America.

There is a basic difference, however. Many Europe knows how freedom of fragility, and how it can be dictatorship and collective killing with it, with a collective memory of the horrors of the twentieth century.

It was precisely the overcoming of this collapse in brutality, racism and genocide in which the United States moved away from Europe, but it is aware that its fate was involved in humanity, he sent its youth to fight on their way to twenty in France in 1944.

In the days, weeks, and years that followed Paul Valerie’s reflection in 1940, France is already abandoning what cannot be conceived. I now write from Vichy, the small city in central France, from which the authoritarian regime of Marshal Henry Philippe Bitten France has a smell, and it cooperated with the Nazi people and the deportation of more than 70,000 Jews to their death in Hitler’s camps.

This was the French shame in Vichy, and his tear that represents it from the values ​​and such as the republic. It took decades to confront the entire truth. This cute spa name, away from the shores of Normandy, will be associated forever with defeat.

At the end of “” “France France“His judicial book that brought France to a deeper understanding of the darkest hours, Robert Bakston, the American historian, wrote:” The actions of the occupier and the operator alike indicate that there are harsh times when it saves the values ​​of the deep nation that one must admire the state. After 1940 France was one of those times. “

These words appear to be particularly thinking today, eight decades of the return of peace, with decisive American help, to a shattered European continent.