Europa muss endlich aufwachen

Der britische Journalist Lewis Goodall schreibt:

Vance’s speech, alongside Hegseth’s comments on Ukraine earlier this week, remind us of several things.

First, this is a government of the radicalised online right, for the radicalised online right, by the radicalised online right.

It’s government by Breitbart.

They don’t care about actual freedom and security, again, the sort Ukrainians are dying for- because there’s frenzied stuff to say about largely imagined attacks on freedom of speech which will get 100k likes on Elon’s Twitter.

Second, this is the first US administration since before Roosevelt, probably ever, that not only makes no distinction between democracies and autocracies, but actually prefers the latter.

The very things which make liberal democracies liberal democracies- division of power, protection of minority rights, laws which govern freedom of speech, adherence to international law, independent judiciaries- are disliked by the current US government, because they believe they are part of a liberal cosmopolitan plot.

They combined this with a preference for great power politics.

The sight of Trump saying that he and Putin would, bilaterally negotiate an outcome to the Ukraine war, was a sickening one, bypassing the very people who have spent so much blood for their democratic future, for their actual freedom of speech.

In so doing, Trump gave what Putin wanted from the beginning: a Yalta type moment when the future of Europe would be decided by them, and themselves alone.

This rejects precisely what this entire war is about: the right of Ukraine to choose its own path, to choose to be a liberal democracy in the European orbit, and not a Russian satellite: how much freedom of speech does JD Vance think Ukrainians held in the occupied Donbas enjoy right now?

Any deal fashioned in the way Trump has talked this week would make America, man’s last best hope, an accessory to an imperial adventure.

This week may prove the most portentous for European security since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

If this week and Vance’s speech in Munich, the site of too many political betrayals, doesn’t wake Europe up- nothing will.

It should have been a week where the veil is lifted: where Europe realises we are on our own.

The American state has been captured by a group of people who do not see the world as we do, who are hostile to the world as we want it to be.

We must see them for what they are- to their credit, they don’t pretend to be anything else. To our discredit, we lie to ourselves that they do.

Hier der ganze Beitrag:

We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.