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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,260 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:33 PM Dec 2025

Trump's team sees Europe's 'erasure.' Europeans see a hostile US

Trump’s team sees Europe’s ‘erasure.’ Europeans see a hostile US


Efforts by European leaders to cajole Trump — reaching a deal on tariffs, agreeing to increase military spending, and taking over military and financial support of Ukraine — appear to have done little to change the views within his administration. The security document put it in writing.

“There is a growing recognition that their strategy did not work,” said Nathalie Tocci, director of the Rome-based Institute for International Affairs and a former E.U. foreign policy adviser.

“It’s becoming clearer that, obviously, it’s expressed by the Trump administration, but there seems to be a bigger MAGA sort of worldview in which Europe is identified as Public Enemy No. 1.”

Tocci said the U.S. strategy describes the continent as “the only world region apparently in which democracy is under threat”; echoes the “great replacement” theory — a baseless claim that White populations are deliberately being replaced by non-White immigrants; and “buys into a narrative” on Russia, which has blamed Europeans for its war in Ukraine.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-s-team-sees-europe-s-erasure-europeans-see-a-hostile-us/ar-AA1S0mMf
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Trump's team sees Europe's 'erasure.' Europeans see a hostile US (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2025 OP
As with ***everything*** RWNJs say -- the accusation is the confession. eppur_se_muova Dec 2025 #1
Well, why not? Europe was where the Renaissance and the Enlightenment were born. no_hypocrisy Dec 2025 #2

eppur_se_muova

(41,948 posts)
1. As with ***everything*** RWNJs say -- the accusation is the confession.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:55 AM
Dec 2025

“the only world region apparently in which democracy is under {the severest} threat” -- that's ***US***, baby !

no_hypocrisy

(54,908 posts)
2. Well, why not? Europe was where the Renaissance and the Enlightenment were born.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 07:04 AM
Dec 2025

Must erase that . . . . .

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