{"id":9123,"date":"2025-02-27T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/some-european-allies-fear-trump-is-out-to-destroy-them\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:22:20","slug":"some-european-allies-fear-trump-is-out-to-destroy-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/some-european-allies-fear-trump-is-out-to-destroy-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Some European Allies Fear Trump Is Out to Destroy Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During his first term in office, President Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-says-eu-was-set-order-hurt-united-states-1232747\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">described the European Union<\/a> \u201cas a foe,\u201d established \u201cto hurt the United States on trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He repeated the charge at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, but in more vulgar terms: \u201cThe European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That\u2019s the purpose of it, and they\u2019ve done a good job of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then he said he was preparing to hit Europe with 25 percent tariffs on cars and other goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Trump\u2019s embrace of Russia and his warnings that Europe had better fend for itself, the president\u2019s latest attack added to the increasing view of European leaders and analysts that he and his team of loyalists consider America\u2019s traditional allies in Europe as adversaries not just on trade, but on nearly everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some officials and analysts see the Trump administration as merely indifferent to Europe; others see open hostility. But there is a common view that the fundamental relationship has changed and that America is a less reliable and predictable ally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has rebuffed NATO and aligned himself with the longstanding, principal threat to the alliance: Russia. Vice President JD Vance has attacked European democracy while calling for the door to be opened to far-right parties. Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump aide, has heaped contempt on European leaders and openly endorsed an extremist party in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Equally shocking to European leaders, the United States this week refused to condemn Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations. It instead <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-diplomacy.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">broke from its allies<\/a> and voted with Russia, Belarus and North Korea, all authoritarian governments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">European leaders are scrambling to assess and mitigate the damage. The prime minister of Britain, Keir Starmer, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/23\/world\/europe\/france-uk-trump-macron-starmer.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">arrives at the White House on Thursday<\/a> \u2014 the second such visit this week, after President Emmanuel Macron of France \u2014 still hoping to persuade Mr. Trump not to abandon Ukraine and to remain engaged in Europe. But Mr. Trump describes himself as a disrupter, and Mr. Macron got little for his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/24\/us\/politics\/trump-macron-ukraine.html?searchResultPosition=3\" title=\"\">attempt at seduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/23\/world\/europe\/friedrich-merz-germany-chancellor-election.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">Friedrich Merz<\/a>, 69, the conservative politician likely to be Germany\u2019s next chancellor, has expressed strong doubts about the trans-Atlantic relationship he and his country have been committed to for decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday evening, after his party won the most votes in the German election, Mr. Merz said that after listening to Mr. Trump, \u201cit is clear that the Americans, at least this part of the Americans, this administration, are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He wondered whether the American nuclear umbrella over NATO would remain \u2014 and even whether the alliance itself would continue to exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His comments were a remarkable measure of the dismay felt by European leaders over the American reversal of policy on Ukraine and, perhaps more so, for its outright backing of far-right parties that despise European governments and support Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Merz\u2019s remarks were reminiscent of a 2017 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/28\/world\/europe\/angela-merkel-trump-alliances-g7-leaders.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">statement<\/a> by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/28\/world\/europe\/angela-merkel-trump-alliances-g7-leaders.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">Angela Merkel<\/a>, then the German chancellor, after contentious alliance meetings with Mr. Trump. \u201cThe times in which we could rely fully on others \u2014 they are somewhat over,\u201d she said. She encouraged Europeans to \u201ctake our fate into our own hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her comments were considered a potentially seismic shift, but a real reorientation of European security policy never materialized. Matters are more serious now, said Claudia Major, who directs security policy at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn Munich, Vance declared a culture war and said: \u2018Join us or not. We have the right values and you have it wrong,\u2019\u201d she said. His speech, she added, made it clear that \u201cthe country that brought us back our freedom and our democracy is turning against us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She is not alone in the assessment. Several analysts said the Trump administration\u2019s actions showed that it was not merely indifferent to Europe, but was out to undo it. The distinction holds real consequences for how Europe can respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is no question the intention is there to destroy Europe, starting with Ukraine,\u201d said Nathalie Tocci, director of Italy\u2019s Institute of International Affairs. \u201cThe empowering of the far right is instrumental to the goal of destroying the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reason, she said, is that the Trump administration sees Europe not merely as a competitor, but also as an economic and even ideological threat. It wants to undermine the power of the European Union to regulate trade, competition and hate speech. The latter is a major topic for Mr. Vance, as he criticized what he called news media censorship and political correctness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The European Union is the largest trading bloc in the world, capable of striking back against Washington economically and in tariff terms, representing the \u201ceconomic foe\u201d Mr. Trump railed against in his first term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That power is being used against high-tech and social media companies whose leaders surround and subsidize Mr. Trump, like Mr. Musk, who owns the social media platform X. They, too, have an interest in weakening \u201cthe Brussels Effect,\u201d as Anu Bradford of Columbia University Law School called it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Brussels Effect is the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cer.eu\/insights\/tech-death-brussels-effect-greatly-exaggerated\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">power of the European Union<\/a> to establish global rules and norms, and it is particularly important in the realms of climate regulations, digital competition, platform accountability and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But if the Trump administration feels it necessary to destroy that threat, then there is little European nations can do to appease the White House, some warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If Mr. Trump and his team \u201care out to push the far right and destroy European democracy, then no amount of European purchasing of American LNG or weapons will matter,\u201d said Ms. Tocci, of Italy\u2019s Institute of International Affairs. By increasing dependency, she added, \u201cit could be a kind of double suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S.-European relations tend to go in cycles, with important strategic debates in the past over Iraq or Afghanistan or even Vietnam. But now the clashes are simultaneously ideological, strategic and economic, said Camille Grand, a former NATO and French official with the European Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFacing hostility on all three fronts at once is quite a shock to Europeans,\u201d said Mr. Grand. \u201cAdding all three together you can wonder whether you are no longer a partner but a rival and, perhaps, even an adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Every country in Europe is doing a reassessment of where it is vis-\u00e0-vis Washington, he said. What isn\u2019t clear is whether, as in Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, \u201cyou have an unpleasant roller-coaster ride that leaves you sick but you end up where you started, or whether the whole relationship now derails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Linas Kojala, director of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, urges calm, because \u201cthere is no real alternative to the U.S. security guarantee\u201d for a long time to come. \u201cDeclaring the trans-Atlantic relationship has collapsed would be like stepping off a ship in the middle of the ocean with no other vessel in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So for now, he said, \u201cEurope must swallow\u201d the Trump criticism and \u201cdo everything possible to keep the relationship intact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But it is unlikely to return to where it was, Alex Younger, a former chief of Britain\u2019s foreign intelligence service, MI6, told <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FocQITpJnaQ\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC<\/a> last week. \u201cWe are in a new era where, by and large, international relations aren\u2019t going to be determined by rules and multilateral institutions,\u201d he said, but \u201cby strongmen and deals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Matthew Kroenig, a former defense department official who is now at the Atlantic Council in Washington, calls himself a \u201cnormal Republican\u201d and says that \u201cthere has been a bit too much hysteria over the past couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After all, Mr. Kroenig said, the first Trump term was also marked by \u201ca lot of tough rhetoric against allies and a lot of deferential language toward Putin, but in the end, NATO was strengthened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Others are less sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has been engaged in \u201ca policy of rapid, unilateral concession of long-held positions on fundamental interests to persuade the aggressor to stop fighting,\u201d said Nigel Gould-Davies of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, speaking of Russia in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe established name for such a policy,\u201d he said, \u201cis \u2018strategic surrender.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whether it will produce the outcome Mr. Trump desires is not clear, he said. What is clear is that it is undermining allied trust in the credibility and common sense of the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is imperiling old allies in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And it is \u201cmaking Russia a more powerful, assertive and attractive ally to America\u2019s adversaries around the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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