Europe is haunted by a ghost, Donald Trump’s ghost. The rulers in Europe did not anticipate him returning, and even worse, they had no idea how to counteract him.
The Eurocrats had a dream about” proper independence” when Donald Trump was still the 45th President of the United States when I was elected to the European Parliament in 2019. In 2020, Joe Biden followed Trump, whispering:” America is back to lead the earth once” and all of Brussels rejoiced.
The EU leaders have since followed a plan that is entirely dependent on US progressives ‘ policies and is oriented toward them. The EU has cut ties with Russia and China in terms of trade policy, accepted the threat of the global south, accepted every US sanction against its neighbors, reneged on its own foreign policy freedom, and usually renounced everything that might be in the way of a woke America’s ideas and interests.
And then Donald Trump is reclaiming his position as# 47. He represents the very opposite of a woken America. He may end the war in Ukraine, which will embarrass Western foreign policy. He has announced that he will leave the Paris Climate Agreement, giving the US a significant cost benefit over the heavily taxed German business.
He wants to impose huge trade taxes, forcing Europe’s trade industries to invest in the US. Trump has exposed the wrongheadedness of every Western political decision made in the last four decades.
Trump may make it even worse for the Eurocrats to deny their losses, making things even worse. The EU’s test to judge social networks – above all Elon Musk’s X – through the Digital Services Act may face fierce opposition from Washington, as Vice President-elect Vance has previously announced.
In this situation, the Union cannot actually revert to the old phrase of” strategic freedom”. Unlike in 2016-20, neither China, India, South Africa, nor Turkey believes whatever this EU is saying, not to mention Russia.
Yet before 2020,” proper freedom” was only a brand, never whatever of element: European politicians are too stupid and the EU is too weak to stand up an independent foreign and business plan. They have always been powerless. The only gimmick is that there will no longer be buffed people around.
The social landscape has undergone significant changes as a result of this circumstance. The most devoted Atlanticists have been the Brussels and Berlin leaders ‘ since Politico’s election of Ursula von der Leyen as” Europe’s American President,” but they now sound like Gaullists who sworn by European freedom.
Unlike the real General de Gaulle, to be sure, they have neither ideas nor resources to influence for freedom. On the other hand, functions that have traditionally been wary of America, like Germany’s AfD, have discovered their political ties to Trump and his MAGA perspective and have at the same time received significant press backing from Elon Musk.
Previous Blackrock legislator and board member Friedrich Merz, who is likely to be the next German Chancellor, has spent the last few years relentlessly criticizing the AfD’s opposition from the proper as well as Sarah Wagenknecht’s left-wing opposition for their pretended skepticism regarding the transatlantic alliance.
Now it is obvious to him that these alleged enemies of America sound similar to Trump and Vance, but Merz and the approaching Administration disagree on all important issues.
At the level of the EU, Hungary’s Viktor Orban was the whipping child for all of Biden’s toadies, who reproached him for his politics with Putin, Erdogan, Netanyahu, and Xi. When Trump re-enters the White House, Orban will now have wealthy exposure.
Kaja Kallas, the new EU foreign affairs commissioner, is standing in opposition to Orban. Kallas was hired solely because she is a zealous Russia hater. Her position did fall as a result of a peace deal being reached in Ukraine, making it a remnant of a moment that, hopefully, will soon be put to the end and of no use in the present.
The Eurocrats are the turning points of social life, but they are nothing more than gamers, which exposes them. They are checkmated. They may explain why everyone went against what they had been expecting because they have placed everything on a single cards.
But that isn’t just a problem of conversation, but rather one of economy: The Ukraine conflict was expensive, and the Russian restrictions did more harm to the EU and especially Germany than they did to Russia. And to what end? The weather craze has ruined German economy —and to what purpose, then that the US is abandoning it?
The political proper, which is now feeling the wind coming from America, is energized by this change. The organized European parties were at once in deal that there couldn’t possibly get any assistance with the AfD.
They also spoke of a “firewall” against the AfD. Elon Musk has since resurrected the AfD on X and in the widely circulated Die Welt news. That raises the question of which means the router is directed: against the AfD and Elon, or against the German political idiots?
Donald Trump is altering the political scenery around the world. The German political wealthy and its echo chamber in the mainstream press, with all their ideas and capabilities, have no place in this new environment. For the political right, by contrast, unanticipated opportunities are opening. They only need to be recognized and taken advantage of.
Trump has made it clear that despite having a sizable trade deficit, it can’t continue to support global demand. In the Global South, Europe must look for fresh markets. Trump has warned Europe that it cannot ignore its own defense while clinging to America’s defense umbrella.
Instead of wasting their resources on counterproductive proxy wars, European patriots must provide for the defense of their countries. The patriotic right to rule as opposed to just to complain is now in order. There is no loss, but there is a world in which to triumph. Patriots of the world, unite!
The European Parliament is represented by Maximilian Krah.