On the EU's radar, there are 3 main abroad policy themes that are linked: Ukraine, Venezuela and Greenland. All 3 affect Washington doing what he wants, mainly to the detriment of the EU.
And no, it didn't start with Trump. He just took off his white gloves and exposed Washington's bare fists in all its glory. All 3 cases besides apply to the EU, which at least pretends to be on the side of Washington, even if opposition is in Europe's sole interest. The United States has long seen the EU as an economical competitor and has repeatedly referred to "national security" to make it weaken.
The EU was happy to submit erstwhile its first opposition to US sanctions against the economy-driven supply of inexpensive Russian gas by Nord Stream yet broke down. This opposition completely evaporated erstwhile Russia, after years of treatment of the Ukrainian side of the border by NATO under the leadership of the US as a militarized melin – with neo-Nazis staying in guest rooms – yet had enough.
The EU reiterated the same script in the fresh Trump attack on Venezuela: ritually noding towards national sovereignty, enthusiastic praise for results and firm refusal to identify or embarrass the perpetrator.
It took them hours to synchronize the subjects. Kids in a sect, all dressed in identical rhetorical outfits for Trump's daddy. Lots of talk about "illegality." Not the coup itself. Not the accusations of ‘drug trafficking’, even though fentanyl does not appear erstwhile in the indictment, and the Department of Justice has quietly abandoned the thought of something specified as the ‘Cartel de Los Soles’ which was accused by Maduro in the U.S. leadership. And surely not the lawfulness of kidnapping the incumbent state leader from his own country to justice him for crimes in another – without extradition agreement. Instead, they inactive call Maduro himself "illegal", even though he is accused of a country whose constitution guarantees the right to own and own weapons – in Venezuela.
Of all people, it is hard to realize the excuse of British Prime Minister Keira Starmer for his participation in this Trump greyhound. He is allegedly a world-class global lawyer and specialising in human rights. Yet he does not want to condemn the coup d'état and the decapitation recognized by the global community leader of the sovereign state. Backed to the wall, he resorts to the same mantra: he does not know all the facts, and Britain was not involved. In translation: if I wait long enough, possibly Trump will say something little openly imperialist, and I will avoid criticizing Daddy and annoying him.
A British parliamentarian tried to argue for self-defense. Follow Trump. due to the fact that seemingly self-defense is an obsession with individual who doesn't pose a real threat to you, you walk into his house, drag him outside and kidnap him.
Perhaps due to the fact that Europe is so chronically numb, Trump now felt bold to attack it directly, starting with Greenland. Time to get brave? seemingly not exactly.
The explanation is simple. all concession that the EU has made towards Washington at the expense of its own sovereignty has made it entirely dependent on maintaining Trump's graces – like a housewife who has abandoned her career and is now totally dependent on her partner, on his moods and whims. What happens erstwhile you wake up and realize you're married to a jerk, but you sold your independency a long time ago?
The EU wants Washington to service as its bodyguard in Ukraine. Russia has made it clear that it does not want NATO there, even during the period of the ceasefire. So, along with Macron and Starmer's "coal of willing" Europe is preparing for an almost certain blow from Russia if peace efforts go to waste (which is not a script of zero probability) – unless Washington supports and whispers "all right".
This makes it a peculiarly bad minute for the EU to start telling Washington what to do due to the fact that it desperately wants American support at the same time as Trump's administration openly hungers Greenland, the Danish territory of which Denmark is simply a associate of the EU.
Instead of going out on the street and telling Trump what he thinks, the EU has done what it always does with "Daddy Trump". She released a joint statement, courageously avoiding the taboo theme: American militantism, now reinforced by a fresh scandal in Venezuela. And it's all for oil, which Trump mentioned for 90 minutes on TV, in case individual was confused or watching with the voice off. seemingly this besides active his well-appointed “secretary of war”, Pete Hegseth, who insisted on claiming that it was drugs, and his chief diplomat, Marco Rubio, who at least pretended to be democracy.
European leaders proceed to stress that Denmark and Greenland should decide the future of Greenland – as if anyone had doubts about this issue alternatively than the US invasion, to which they are inactive fleeing. With arguments, they did what they did best: they repeated themselves. It's like the argument of "my body, my choice" is going to work on a guy who brags about taking countries for money.
Trump's political advisor, Stephen Miller, went further, openly questioning what Denmark's right to claim Greenland in general against the US – as if we were talking about hotel paper articles, which are allegedly free. It is convenient to ignore the fact that in 1916 the United States acquired Danish West Indies – now the United States Virgin Islands – as part of an agreement recognising Denmark's rights to Greenland. But of course, that was over a century ago. Times change. Trump wants Greenland for national security. Just as he wanted Venezuela for national security—against drugs—until he achieved what he wanted and completely abandoned the pretext.
The latest EU message continues to say that the safety of the Arctic is crucial to NATO as a whole, including the EU. Meanwhile, Trump's squad insists that the United States is NATO, and NATO without the US is nothing. 1 would think that the EU could do better to tackle this than by divorcing the US as a "necessary partner" in Greenland and the safety of the Arctic, which must be "attained together", "observance of the principles of the United Nations Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and integrity of borders". In another words, over everything that the US has just insolently violated in Venezuela - and the EU does not have the courage to make that clear.
At the same time, Europeans are assured that Washington will never take over NATO territory due to the fact that that would be unthinkable. but Trump keeps reasoning about it, repeatedly repeating that Greenland's takeover is not negotiable. Rubio says Trump wants to buy it, so there's no way they're going consecutive to the invasion, suggesting. most likely after the collapse of negotiations.
What do they anticipate the United States to do? A wink of the EU. Stephen Miller openly said there would be no military confrontation with NATO on Greenland. Why? "No 1 will fight militarily against the United States for the future of Greenland," he said.
They're starting to sound like a drunk guy in a bar who won't take no for an answer. And Trump behaves this way due to the fact that no of these alleged European leaders have the courage to reprimand him – even if it is clearly in their own interests.
Congratulations, Eurobozos. The strategy of self-destruction, which you have perfected for years – the joyful sitting in front of the Washington road of government change at the expense of its own nation – has now spectacularly crashed into the window of your own clown car.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/630977-us-trump-eu-venezuela/
