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Winston Churchill is responsible to say that America is doing the right thing after exhausting the alternative. Donald Trump turned that aphorism on his head. In the past 10 days, there is everything except for burning 80 years of post -war American leadership. Those who thought that America was a friend or ally, especially Ukraine and NATO, falling once there is a sure assumption that they cope with the world where America is an unwavering predator. Washington countries treated as opponents, especially Russia by Vladimir Putin, are suddenly an American friend.
There were thousands of moments in history when they now portrayed their character of a global leader, such as rejection of Anglo-Francusian imperialism Dwight Eisenhower in the 1956 Suez crisis or Ronald Reagan of 1987, the Soviet Union to overthrow Berlin wall. They defined the world idea of America. Trump’s claim This week That Ukraine “never had to start” war is a dark version of these. His account that Russia caused an invasion of Ukraine came directly from Putin’s conversations. So was the speech about Valentin’s in Munich, Munich, in which the US vice president identified liberal democracy as a real European threat from the inside.
These moments will live in the infamous. What do they tell us about what is coming? First, there should be no doubt that Trump’s contempt for allies and admiration for Strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump’s instincts overwhelmed the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is a real article. It is completely possible that figures like Marc Rubio, his Secretary -General or Mike Waltz, his national security advisor, still believe in the Alliance that now leads each one who has once advocated. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Every week, he showed his faithfulness to Trump’s predatory vision of America at interviews with Russian colleagues in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine, the topic of negotiations, was not called. Nor was Europe. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.
Second, Trump is just starting. His release Zelenskyy as a “dictator without choice” is the disturbing outline of a peaceful settlement. Vance called Zelenskyy “shameful” for accusing Trump of living in a “bubble of misinformation”. The idea that Ukraine was under a brutal attack and faced possible extinction, rejected as a liberal virtue of signaling, such as Dei or Constitutional Guard.
Trump is instinctively dedicated to the idea that the world is a jungle where big players take what they want. As such, it would be wrong to trivialize their repeated designs in Greenland, the Panama Channel, the Gaza tape, and even Canada. He divides the world into spheres of interest. The consistency of Trump’s compassion with Putin’s claims about the Russian yard. There is also a symmetry in Trump’s re -comparison with a Monroe doctrine where they now have a domain over the Western hemisphere.
Some have projected to tell the smart chess move in which Russia grew up from his partnership “without restriction” with China, vice versa from what Richard Nixon did in the Cold War. But it’s eager to think. Any such maneuver would make sense only in cooperation with US allies. As he promises to abolish the sanctions on Russia, Trump is preparing for the new transatlantic trade war. After three generations of American leadership, it is always tempting to believe that Trump does not mean what he says. Maybe this is a feint in some great art of work. But allies and former friends must expel these independent thoughts. With Trump, what you see is what you get. America turned.