"Everything that looked solid since the second world war is turned upside down; the land of the free becomes the destroyer of democratic values. Appeasement fails. He may ramble, but Donald Trump speaks plainly. He means what he says, and he hates everything European. Except its emerging patriotic parties, which he wants to support. His strategy warns of civilizational erasure, claiming Europe will soon become majority non-European and parroting the racist conspiracy known as the great replacement theory."
"Describing Europeans as weak, decaying and destroying their countries, with real stupid leaders, Trump responded to the question of whether they would still be allies, in a Politico interview, with a hint of threat: It depends. Note this: the official US strategy says that the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism. He is what he is, in plain sight."
The United States declares itself an adversary of Europe in its national security strategy while treating Russia as an ally and celebrating the rise of European nationalist parties. Donald Trump frames Europeans as weak, decaying and as facing civilizational erasure, echoing the great replacement conspiracy while signaling support for nativist movements. This transformation overturns post–Second World War assumptions and casts the US as undermining democratic values. Britain faces heightened vulnerability from foreign hacking and interference and potential electoral pressure. European regulatory efforts like the Digital Services Act are condemned by Trump as betrayal. Immediate political defenses and stronger electoral protections are urgently required.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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