The American President seems to actually HATE Europe ?
This while unabashingly LIKING the Russian leader Putin…
(Trump IS pissed Europe IS supporting Ukraine against his effort hand it TO Russia)
Donald IS NOT pulling any punches….
What IS Wrong with this picture?
President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in an interview with POLITICO, belittling the traditional U.S. allies for failing to control migration and end the Russia-Ukraine war, and signaling that he would endorse European political candidates aligned with his own vision for the continent.
The broadside attack against European political leadership represents the president’s most virulent denunciation to date of these Western democracies, threatening a decisive rupture with countries like France and Germany that already have deeply strained relations with the Trump administration.
“I think they’re weak,” Trump said of Europe’s political leaders. “But I also think that they want to be so politically correct.”…
“I think they don’t know what to do,” he added. “Europe doesn’t know what to do.”
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Trump’s comments about Europe come at an especially precarious moment in the negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as European leaders express intensifying alarm that Trump may abandon Ukraine and its continental allies to Russian aggression. In the interview, Trump offered no reassurance to Europeans on that score and declared that Russia was obviously in a stronger position than Ukraine…
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In recent days, European capitals have shuddered with dismay at the release of Trump’s new National Security Strategy, a highly provocative manifesto that cast the Trump administration in opposition to the mainstream European political establishment and vowed to “cultivate resistance” to the European status quo on immigration and other politically volatile issues.
In the interview, Trump amplified that worldview, describing cities like London and Paris as creaking under the burden of migration from the Middle East and Africa. Without a change in border policy, Trump said, some European states “will not be viable countries any longer.”
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The president of the European Council, António Costa, on Monday rebuked the Trump administration for the national security document and urged the White House to respect Europe’s sovereignty and right to self-government.
“Allies do not threaten to interfere in the democratic life or the domestic political choices of these allies,” Costa said. “They respect them.”
Speaking with POLITICO, Trump flouted those boundaries and said he would continue to back favorite candidates in European elections, even at the risk of offending local sensitivities.
“I’d endorse,” Trump said. “I’ve endorsed people, but I’ve endorsed people that a lot of Europeans don’t like. I’ve endorsed Viktor Orbán,” the hard-right Hungarian prime minister Trump said he admired for his border control policies.
It was the Russia-Ukraine war, rather than electoral politics, that Trump appeared most immediately focused on. He claimed Monday that he had offered a new draft of a peace plan that some Ukrainian officials liked but that Zelenskyy himself had not reviewed yet. “It would be nice if he would read it,” Trump said.
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In a fresh challenge to Zelenskyy, who appears politically weakened in Ukraine due to a corruption scandal, Trump renewed his call for Ukraine to hold new elections.
“They haven’t had an election in a long time,” Trump said. “You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore.”….
Note…
It would appear that the US Congress is NOT in synch with it’s President …
Refusing to go along with Trump’s effort’s to cut back American troop strength in Europe and weaking NATO…
Tell me now:
Who’s finally winning the Cold War?
(You remember that common alliance of democracies for mutual defence against the totalitarians in Moscow, 1949 – 202– ?)
And which side is the U.S. now taking in the struggles of the 1930’s and 1940’s of those (libertarian-capitalist) democracies against racist dictatorships in Europe and ambitious imperialists in the Far East?