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"When are we going to get the message? I joked a few months back that, when it
comes to Donald Trump, Europe needs to learn from
Sex and the City’s Miranda
Hobbes and realise that “He’s just not that into you”. After this past week,
it’s clear that understates the problem. Trump’s America is not merely
indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous
implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders
still refuse to face.
The depth of US hostility was revealed most explicitly in the new US national
security strategy, or NSS, a 29-page document that serves as a formal statement
of the foreign policy of the second Trump administration. There is much there
to lament, starting with the sceptical quote marks that appear around the sole
reference to “climate change”, but the most striking passages are those that
take aim at Europe.
China and Russia, which you’d think the US would see as genuine strategic
threats worthy of serious attention, are addressed flatly and with relative
brevity. It’s Europe that gets Team Trump’s blood up, against Europe that it
unleashes its rhetorical firepower. It warns that economic stagnation,
“censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering
birthrates” and above all, migration, raise “the stark prospect of
civilizational erasure”.
You don’t need advanced decryption software to work out what that means. The
NSS worries that soon some European countries “will become majority
non-European”, which can only be a euphemism for non-white. Any doubt on that
score was dispelled by the rambling speech the president delivered in
Pennsylvania on Tuesday, in which he mused on how the US only takes people
“from shithole countries” such as Somalia, asking plaintively: “Why can’t we
have some people from Norway, Sweden … from Denmark?”
Perhaps this would not much matter if it merely confirmed that Trump and his
circle view Europe through the same culture war lens that they apply to the US,
blaming migration, DEI and “woke” for enfeebling societies that were stronger
when they were solidly white and Christian (their understanding of “European”).
But this is not merely a
Fox News rant. It’s a plan."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
