By Jo Nova
Donald Trump wants to bring free speech, fertility, hard borders and patriotism back to Europe too
Other people have pointed out the dire state of Europe, but the continent can’t ignore the US President.
He has vowed to “cultivate resistance” to Europe’s current trajectory — and raises grave concerns at the subversion of democratic processes, and the loss of European culture saying “should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognisable in 20 years or less“. The US is officially putting the topic-that-must-not-be-discussed on the table — mass immigration, and blaming the decay of Europe on transnational bodies like the European Union.
This is still an America First policy — framed as it being in Washington’s interest to “prevent any adversary from dominating Europe”.
Trump’s new national security strategy takes aim at Europe
The Wall Street Journal
“A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes,” Trump’s strategy document states. “This is strategically important to the United States precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.”
Apparently the US releases one grand strategic policy each Presidential term with big thinking ideas about the place of US in the world.
We can be sure the Blob media will repeat the quotes, but dwell on the trivia and funnel readers away from the substance. The BBC tells readers that Trump is aligned with the far right AfD party, which was classified as “extreme” in Germany, but they won’t discuss the numbers of immigrants or how European countries are changing. Politico discusses “echoes” of the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, but won’t ask what proportion of Europeans are fluent in their national language, and how many celebrate (or even know) the European culture and heritage of the last thousand years.
Trump says The People are even more important than The Economy….
Trump administration says Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
By Brandon Livesay, BBC
Trump described the document as a “roadmap” to ensure America remains “the greatest and most successful nation in human history”.
The new report doubles down on Trump’s point of view, calling for the restoration of “Western identity”, combatting foreign influence, ending mass migration, and focusing more on US priorities such as stopping drug cartels.
Focusing on Europe, it asserts that if current trends continue the continent would be “unrecognisable in 20 years or less” and its economic issues are “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure”.
“It is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies,” the document states.
It also accused the European Union and “other transnational bodies” of carrying out activities that “undermine political liberty and sovereignty”, said migration policies were “creating strife” and said other issues included “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence”.
Conversely, the document hails the growing influence of “patriotic European parties” and says “America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit”.
Trump wonders whether NATO can survive in the long run:
“Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European,” the document reads. “As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.” — Euronews
It is a conversation The West needs to have. Is a nation a broader family that has a lifelong pact to look after its own in War and Peace, or just a hotel where people choose to live for a while?
Nationalism threatens the Blob, because it demands to know how The Blob serves the nation and The Blob serve only themselves.
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