Tag: European Union


In a bitterly ironic way, Trump’s reckless arrogance is to be welcomed. He has discarded the Western mask of duplicity and pretense, which at least makes it clear what the Western system is all about. What we see is something barbaric and ugly, like the fascism of former times.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz now admits that “parts of Germany’s economy are in very critical condition” and that his government “hasn’t done enough.” That phrasing is an evasion. Germany did not drift into this collapse.
It took Donald Trump to legitimize the opinion that many European citizens have of their leaders: stupid and incompetent.
European foreign policy appears to rest almost entirely on a desire not to offend President Trump.

