"Trump is right, Europe has problems. But they are not what he claims. Decades of underinvestment in people, persistent political incentives to ignore excluded communities and a reluctance to confront how demographic and economic decline interact, go unaddressed. Political leaders largely avoid this conversation. Some deny these problems, others concede them privately while publicly debating symptoms but not addressing the root causes. A clearer perspective can be found among those who live with these failures."
"Across Europe, millions in the working class struggle to survive amid shuttered factories, underfunded schools, unaffordable housing and broken public services. Among them, the Roma sharpen the picture. As Europe's largest and most dispossessed minority, their experience exposes the continent's choice to treat entire populations as collateral damage. When Trump presses on Europe's wounds, these communities confirm where it hurts."
Europe faces significant social and economic decline driven by decades of underinvestment in people, political incentives to ignore excluded communities, and reluctance to confront demographic and economic interaction. Political leaders largely avoid addressing root causes, publicly debating symptoms while denying or privately conceding problems. Millions of working-class Europeans endure shuttered factories, underfunded schools, unaffordable housing and broken public services. The Roma, as Europe's largest and most dispossessed minority, exemplify how entire populations become treated as collateral damage. European weakness shows both in a muted stance toward Russia and in domestic aggression toward minorities, undermining democracy and pluralism.
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