Trump wants a safe world of tyranny

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“The world must be safe for democracy. Its peace must be cultivated on the foundations that have been tested for political freedom.” These were the words of President Woodro Wilson in April 1917 on the eve of America entering the First World War.

After more than a century, Donald Trump began a completely different global mission. The American president makes the world safe for tyranny.

Trump confirmation Ukraine was responsible for its own invasion and that Volodimir Zelinski was a dictator.

By perfectly align himself with the Kremlin propaganda, the US President showed that America Trump is completely happy with Russia’s vision of this war and crushing Ukraine.

European and Ukrainian-Ukrainian diplomats will continue excluded from the US-Russia-Russia talks in testing whether America can be obtained to support reliable security guarantees for Ukraine. But Trump’s only remaining interest in Ukraine seems predatory – witness His request The country has a large part of its mineral wealth to the United States.

I realize that money is one of the few things that really motivates Trump, and the Russians have reached talks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a long list of attractive commercial deals. Expect the lifting of US sanctions on Russia soon.

There are still some in Europe who are trying to rationalize all this. They argue, on the basis of a few evidence, that Trump will not want Russia to win the war. Others claim that all of this is part of a smart American maneuver to isolate China.

But the dark truth is that Vladimir Putin and Trump are challenging by contempt for European democracies. Earlier this month, Putin He said Trump “will restore the system” in Europe and that European countries “will all stand on the feet of the master and shake their tails with tenderness.” These notes were republished by Trump on social media.

As for China, Trump expressed his admiration for Xi Jinping almost as much as Putin abandoned. It seems as if he wanted to conclude a deal with the strong leader of China. So it seems completely likely to betray Trump in the end Taiwan In the same amount of Training of Ukraine.

The mill of rumors in Washington is already wandering in the conversation that the United States will threaten to impose a tariff on Taiwan unless it agrees to sell a large part of TSMC, the world leading semiconductor company, to an American buyer. If the United States can reduce its dependence on the semiconductors of the Taiwanese conductors, the method will be open to America to abandon Taiwan.

A world in which Russia, China and the United States are all hostile to liberal democracy that cannot be intimidated for the Europeans. But while there is a reason for the warning, there is no need for despair. European countries still have huge resources to protect themselves – and have begun to get to know and respond to reality.

Friedrich MirzWho is preparing to become a new consultant in Germany after the Bundestag elections on Sunday, he recently said: “We must prepare for the possibility that Donald Trump will not support the mutual defense commitment in NATO unconditionally.” Mirz broke out other taboos through the proposal of Germany, who should speak with France and Britain about “nuclear participation” – so that the Germans did not count on the umbrella of the American nuclear weapons.

The weaknesses in Europe are well known: slow growth, high debts, small armies, and the slow European Union-and The rise of extremist parties This is looking for Putin and Trump.

But Europe also has tremendous strengths that need to be remembered and invited. The European Union and the United Kingdom, together, has an economy of about 12 times the size of Russia. The European Union is the largest source of commodities and manufacturers in the world, and it is a much greater trade force than the United States.

Europe produces world leading sciences. It has a strong industrial base. The fact that European countries follow the rule of law is crucial to business and will derive investment, as the contempt of the Trump administration of the law becomes more clear.

Get over Defense spending On the basis of the whole of Europe it can be fully achieved. Cooperation between Britain, France and Germany intensifies and can complete the European Union is slower.

Europe feels dangerously isolated. But there is a network of advanced liberal democracies around the world that wants to work with Europe and the United Kingdom – including Japan, South Korea, Australia and Canada.

Europeans should also take the heart to think that this dark period in the United States will not last forever. Liberal forces in the United States are declining, but they did not disappear. Maga recklessness and ambiguity makes it completely possible to explode very quickly.

The Europeans and their democratic allies around the world need to adhere to them – confident that their values ​​will prevail in the end, as they did in the past.

As Wilson said in 1917: “We will fight for the things that we have always carried our closest hearts – for democracy, for the right of those who are subject to power to obtain a voice in their governments, for the rights and freedoms of their freedoms.”

America is on the wrong side of that battle at the present time. The European Union and the United Kingdom – and must – continue to conflict.

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