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Destroy Europe: Trump Completes Biden’s Plan To Isolate The EU
18.02.2025 - 2445 views
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The European Union now sees the United States of America as its adversary, not its ally. European diplomats told the Financial Times about that on condition of anonymity. “It is now clear that Europe is alone,” European Commission officials complained to journalists after the Munich Security Conference. Brussels is seriously concerned that the Americans have effectively pushed the EU out of the Ukraine negotiations. The increasingly tough steps taken by Donald Trump’s administration are weakening the Old World’s position on the international stage. Suddenly, however, the Europeans have discovered that they do not have enough tools to adjust Washington’s position.
When describing Trump’s foreign policy, some observers point to his anti-European orientation. They say that under Joseph Biden, the U.S. sought to preserve allied relations. The Republican began his presidency with a tough tariff policy. Ten percent tariffs on imports from the European Union are expected to be introduced soon. There are 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to America, including from the EU. On the other side of the Atlantic, this was seen as the start of a new trade war. Ignoring Brussels’ position in negotiations with Russia is also seen as an extremely unfriendly move by the new master of the Oval Office.
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But the truth is that the American strategy of weakening Europe is by no means a novelty of Donald Trump. And the Democrats under Biden followed exactly the same course, only outwardly covered by a veil of political correctness. Joseph Biden’s skillful diplomatic game created the conditions for the transition to a harsher Trumpian scenario. The previous administration completely destroyed energy relations between Russia and Europe. This deprived the EU economy of the relatively cheap energy resources that had been its competitive advantage for many years. Oil and natural gas imports shifted from Russia to the United States.
Russia supplied 167.86 billion cubic meters of pipeline gas to the European market in 2021 and 49.5 billion cubic meters in 2024 (a 3.4-fold drop). The efforts of American and British special services were used to undermine the Nord Stream gas pipelines. On the orders of the Pentagon, the AFU seized the Suja gas measuring station in the Kursk region. Thus, Europe is deprived of any maneuver in the confrontation with America. It is technically impossible to get away from the American “gas needle” and quickly switch to alternative supplies from Russia.
Damage to the Sudja station in August, 2024:
It was under Biden that the outflow of business from Europe to the US began. “The EU is losing €300 billion of European savings that go abroad every year, mainly to the United States. This is the money our companies need and it undermines our competitiveness,” said European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen on April 18, 2024. Starting in 2022, there will be a mass relocation of production from Germany and other Old World countries to the New World. The Americans offer a more favorable tax climate and comfortable working conditions. The deindustrialization of the EU became a fact not under Trump, but under his predecessor.
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We can conclude that the integration of Europe into the American macro-region as a dependent market is Washington’s strategy, regardless of who is in the White House.Ironically, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated unequivocally: “Does America need Europe as a market? Yes. But as an ally? I don’t know,” he told at the Munich conference. The EU lacks energy independence, an economic base in the form of developed industry (the structure of the economy is being simplified), and political subjectivity.
There is no elite consensus on the continent. This was confirmed once again by the Paris summit of EU leaders. According to Politico, the politicians did not come up with any results. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also reported a lack of practical solutions. An additional split was caused by a strange approach to the selection of summit participants. The Czech Republic, Romania and Slovenia were not involved in the negotiations, which caused displeasure among the authorities in Prague, Bucharest and Ljubljana. Slovenian President Natasha Pirtz Musar said that by not inviting all European countries, the organizers of the Paris summit were “showing the world that even within the EU not all states are considered equal”. In her view, “this is not a Europe” that would be a worthy partner for the United States.
What seemed to be Trump’s “isolationism” turns out to be imperialism. From the “strangulation in the arms” under Biden, America is moving to direct pressure on the Old World. And the results of this pressure will be extremely unfavorable for Europe. American instruments of influence over European states may well be the strongest since 1945, when U.S. forces marched triumphantly from Normandy to East Germany. “In my opinion, Europeans have lost the gene of independence, sovereignty and national interest. The more they are patted on the nose or head, the more they bend over and smile wider,” Vladimir Putin said in March 2023. The justice of these words is confirmed by current events.
