The Republican president-elect has threatened to relaunch a trade war with Europe, withdraw US support for Ukraine, and roll back America’s transatlantic security commitment.
Even as European leaders scrambled to congratulate Donald Trump and offered to work with him, some of their underlings were on the brink of despair.
“It is a disaster for us, there is no good to come from this,” said an EU diplomat, whose weary eyes betrayed an all-nighter watching the election results roll in.
Officials in the Belgian capital have spent months discussing how to “Trump-proof” the EU and Nato.
On Monday, its incoming trade chief Maros Sefcovic said that regardless of who won, the bloc would “put forward an offer of cooperation” but would “be ready to stand up for our interest if faced with a disruptive scenario”.
The East just Trumped the West. Long live fake communism.
Who knows what you mean by this vaguepost. Maybe you mean Russia isn’t communist even though literally no one thinks it is, or maybe you mean China isn’t communist because this article is from SCMP. You’re waware that Trump is even more bellicose w/r/t China than Biden or Harris, right?
I’m aware that they are all fascists.
I don’t think you understand what fascism is.
- Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
- Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
- The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
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Typical sinophobe response
Armchair communist? Parlor Pink?
Hey look the person that refuses to read and makes racist comments is calling others fake lefties.
Please report those also, so we can ban them.
Will do!
Of course you’re not. Not understanding things is how you came to be racist and wrong in the first place.
I really don’t know where you’re getting racism lol.
It’s everyone’s favorite game to play with their klansman uncle: make them admit they’re a racist!
…it’s futile!
