Column | Trump wants regime change in Europe, also in the Netherlands

On May 27, an official document was published in Washington that calls until Regime Change In European countries. Party leaders in the Netherlands are doing well to read this carefully before they come up with cheap electoral boxing jumps with their spin doctor for the upcoming election campaign. What is at stake this time is not just who will drive the Netherlands. It goes much further: the Americans are increasingly seeing Europe as a political battlefield. For them, elections – recently in Romania and Poland, soon in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic – are an excellent opportunity to get European countries all the hands of extreme right -wing leaders with a Trumpian agenda. With those parties they want a “Civilization Alliance« Forge, » grafted on a joint, Western civilization heritage.  » All other parties must be challenged, because they are « conducting an aggressive campaign against Western civilization itself » and – yes – « threaten American safety more and more. »

The document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europewas written by Samuel Samson, senior adviser in the agency for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US Department of Foreign Affairs. It builds on the Munich speech by Vice President JD Vance, in February. Vance said that ‘Woke’ Europe is the greatest threat to Western values ​​and democracy. This document goes one step further. Now it says that America is bothered by that, because it damages American security, economic interests and freedom of expression. It implies that it is time to take action: extreme right -wing forces in Europe must transform their political systems in such a way that Washington can soon form a civilization alliance with ‘Christian nations as Hungary’.

According to Samson, it is not America that undermines democracy by ignoring judicial statements; demolishing public institutions; block visas from people who criticize Trump and want to regulate tech companies; Or to pick migrants from the street and dump them in South Sudan or Libya. No, it is Europe that is antidemocratic: “One hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restriction of religious freedom and countless other attacks on democratic self -administration. « 

Although Europe is largely governed by conservative parties, the document describes « a Europe that replaces its spiritual and cultural roots, sees traditional values ​​such as dangerous relics and balt power in institutions that do not account ». The text refers to Aristotle, Thomas van Aquino, medieval Christianity and British customary law, but does not mention the Foundation of the European and US State Establishment with its separation of church and state, control of the executive, fundamental rights and emphasis on rationalism and science.

Trump wants to make Europe an American vassal to form a strong block towards China

Trump wants to make Europe an American vassal to form a strong block towards China. In that block, everyone has to do what Trump wants. Those who resist, will be punished – and Trumps Rates War is just the beginning. He first conquered America by starting an extreme cultural war. Now he exports it to Europe. In every election he chooses a candidate, and supports it aggressively – Nawrocki in Poland, Weidel in Germany, Simion in Romania. Geert Wilders is also supported Through the White House. He was already full on the Trumpian organ with ten anti-migration proposals-as if the world only revolves around asylum seekers. In Madrid, in February, he called Trump his « Brother in Arms« . In Budapest he last talked about » screaming imams « and he compared migrants with criminals. He supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza And Trumps plan for a « Rivièra » there as soon as the last Palestinian has been killed or driven out.

No, it’s not too late. But we have to stop being naive. Fighting back is only possible with political leaders who see the larger, global connections. They understand what is at stake. Who do not allow their agenda to be determined by the polarizing identity debate. No boxing jumps, but well -considered, fundamental positions like.

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