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Europeans May Not Love Trump—but Many Agree With Him

The “weak” elites he attacks are the real enemies of European democracy.

There has been much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent scathing criticisms of Europe’s “weak” leaders and the danger of “civilisational erasure” on the continent.

Trump has been branded anti-European. But if that was true, then surely millions of European citizens must also be considered “anti-European.” Because they are voting for political parties and supporting protest movements which make strikingly similar criticisms of the EU regime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Donald Trump’s Civilizational Defense Strategy

If the just-published “National Security Strategy of the United States of America” was intended to infuriate the old line globalist elites in Europe and the United States, then it has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its authors. Take, for example, the essay this morning by Jacob Heilbrunn over at that “other” Spectator. Heilbrunn manages the not inconsiderable feat of dismissing the document as “incomprehensible” and “negligible,” while at the same time suggesting that it’s important enough to cause our key allies consternation and dismay.

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America’s new doctrine of Empire – Can Trump save Europe from itself?

When I was a child, I once, after being told off by my mother, conspicuously gathered together some treasured toys into a tea towel, and wrapped them onto the end of a broom handle, as I had seen tramps do in cartoons. Declaring that I was running away, I made it as far as the garden gate, where I lingered for some long minutes, waiting for my mother to rush out and usher me back into the warm security of home, torn between the certainty that she would — and a dread anxiety that I was, as I had declared I wanted, now truly on my own. So it is today with Europe’s political elites, endlessly declaring that this time everything has changed, and the continent must now stand on its own in a harsh and frightening world, while secretly anticipating, with mounting dread, to be ushered back into America’s stifling if protective embrace. Yet in this instance, our rulers must be careful what they wish for.

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Is British civilisation really being erased?

Mass migration risks making the UK and its neighbours ‘unrecognisable’. America could one day cut them loose

Donald Trump’s description of Europe, offered in an interview with Politico last week, was characteristically blunt: “What they’re doing with immigration is a disaster.” Unless this changes, some nations “will not be viable countries any longer”, with politicians like Sadiq Khan “elected because so many people have come in. They vote for him now”.

It was an assessment that came hard on the heels of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy, which warned that Europe would be “unrecognisable in 20 years” and risked “civilisational erasure”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Europe, USA

Civilization Erasure, Christmas Markets, and Hungary

Christmas Market Budapest Hungary

Hungary’s guarded borders stand out in a Europe where migrant-driven unrest is forcing Christmas markets to shutter under rising security fears.

Not surprisingly, a controversial prediction in the new Trump administration’s National Security Strategy that Europe is facing “civilization erasure” because of out-of-control mass migration infuriated European elites. The Economist attacked this reference as “shocking.” The Independent, a UK newspaper, referred to it as a “sinister conspiracy theory.”

I want to set this aside for a moment and talk about European Christmas markets, especially in Hungary.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, EU, Europe

Cry the Beloved Europe?

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization.

Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans.

Their pique only increases as they push back against the condescending American idea that the U.S. could offer any constructive advice, much less help a more civilized Europe follow the “American model.”

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How Trump’s Maga allies are cultivating a European ‘resistance’

Drinks parties with the Russians and scathing criticism of centrist governments could morph into Cold War-esque interference across the Continent

On the remote shoulders of a mountain 50 miles east of Rome, the Trisulti charterhouse stands as a monument to the difficulty of establishing a European version of the Make America Great Again movement.

It was in this 700-year-old Carthusian monastery on Monte Rotonaria that Steve Bannon, the America First ideologue and former chief strategist to President Trump, attempted to set up a “gladiator school” for national-conservative culture warriors from across Europe.

The Academy for the Judeo-Christian West, as it was known, soon got bogged down in legal action and an eviction attempt by the Italian culture ministry.

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US engaging in ‘extreme rightwing tropes’ reminiscent of 1930s, British MPs warn

The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on Thursday.

The House of Commons rounded on Donald Trump’s national security strategy, which stated that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and vowed to help the continent “correct its current trajectory and promote patriotic European parties”.

Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament’s joint committee on the UK government’s national security strategy, warned: “The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

A Civilisational Crisis: Europe in the Eyes of the USA

Without warning, the United States of America released a much-anticipated National Security Strategy (NSS), which aims to refocus American security around an updated set of core American interests–sovereignty and borders, security at home, and restoring “American Greatness.”

The strategy has significant implications for America’s role on the world stage, its priorities at home, and how to put ‘America First’ into practise. But it is the short, declaratory section of Europe that has attracted the loudest howls of outrage.

The document pulls no punches. In the opening sentences, it declares that Europe’s “economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” In this, the document can be seen as an extension of Vice President Vance’s notorious comments in Munich that European countries had no idea what “they were supposed to be fighting for.”

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German Chancellor Says Trump‘s Opposition to EU Agenda ‘Unacceptable‘

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that aspects of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper are “unacceptable” to Europeans.

Last week, the White House released its formal National Security Strategy paper, which criticised European Union nations for engaging in mass migration and censorship, which Washington warned would lead the continent towards “civilizational erasure”.

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Donald Trump is calling for Europe to save itself

National Security Strategy warnings are motivated by desire to preserve Christian civilisation

One particular passage in America’s National Security Strategy, published last week, is causing meltdown in Britain and Europe and on the American left. Economic decline in Europe, said the NSS, is being eclipsed by “civilisational erasure”.

Some European countries are on course to become majority non-European. The EU and other transnational bodies are undermining political liberty and censoring free speech. Birth rates are cratering and national identities and self-confidence are being lost.

“Should present trends continue,” the NSS authors wrote, “the continent will be unrecognisable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies.”

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Elon Musk is right about the EU

Europhiles – the most maddening tribe on the internet – are coming for Elon Musk. After Musk dared to blaspheme against the Brussels bureaucracy that they so fervently simp for, they called him a stooge of Vladimir Putin. ‘Putin wants a weaker EU’, said the EU-loving centrists of Renew Europe, and now Musk is doing his bidding by calling for a ‘break-up [of] the EU’. It’s the same low trick every time – utter one word of dissent against their beloved EU oligarchy and they’ll have you down as a running dog of Russia.

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Transatlantic Tensions Surge After X Fine and Harsh New U.S. Security Strategy

Relations between the United States and the European Union appear somewhat fraught after two Friday announcements triggered outrage on both sides of the Atlantic.

First, Brussels imposed a €120 million fine on the social-media platform X—and its owner Elon Musk personally—for breaching transparency rules of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, called the fine “an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.”

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