This is What the World Sees After Our Election

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This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.

 
By and large the rest of the world has their own issues to be concerned over.
To be fair, Europe has hidden under our umbrella since the end of WWII. Now Trump might be closing the umbrella with a storm raging in Ukraine, and Europe doesn't know what to do, especially with member nations like Hungary and Turkey basically siding with Putin.
 

This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.

Europe and France especially have gone so far woke, that instead of those countries keeping their own identities, they have now become far left radical Muslim harbors of death to their own citizens. Why the fuck would we the people want to associate with such terrible people who kill other people daily? Oh yeah, you see death happening in your part of the city every day by your own people. Thanks but we want America Great Again, not a shithole like Shitcago.
 
We now have a president who is acutely aware of what it is like to be the victim of political persecution. Still, I hope that he uses his pardon power wisely.
We are all a bunch of sinners. It is a grossly inappropriate use of the power of the state to investigate people to try and find out what sins that they have committed.
 

This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.



Oh no! Some lefty twat in France is dooming over the President Trump victory. And clearly he speaks for the entire nation of France.
 

This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.


Trump has a unique situation today in which he and Vance can be the Reagan/GHBW of yesteryear. Reagan is most well known for his "tear down this wall speech" for a reason. It made him a hero for the next 1000 years as unlike in the past it was captured on video. Trump must demand enemies stay in line while strongly encouraging allies to NOT become like Americas enemies.

France is like India today, not really reliable, a bit shifty and always looking out for their own interests. They are very good at digital intelligence methods and they use them against everyone to collect information. They also aren't even part of the Five Eyes so don't forget that important point.

I've watched their state funded France 24 news network often. It's often embarrassing.. They know their country is in decline because they foolishly allowed countless illegal immigrants in whom don't care for Frances culture or religious history.

The U.K has traditionally been a reliable ally of the U.S until they started election far-left governments that imprison people for speech. You MUST not go down that path. In fact, Trump has to deal strongly against adversaries, but he also must remind allies that Western Values cannot be sacrificed to appease people who don't like others speech.

Germanys coalition government recently split, thanks to them relying on the Green Party. I mean come on, what a way to play into Chinas hands. The Green Party was critical to keeping their coalition alive while there is war on the doorstep!?

It is up to America to lead the Free World and tell allies "we must support civil liberties, capitalism and operate fairly among each other". I don't know if Trump has it in him to be that Stateman like Reagan but I hope he does. Right now Japan, Taiwan, S Korea and even Philippines are becoming more important to American Interests as long as Europe refuses to do the heavy lifting that is needed. They KNOW America needs to focus on China but yet, they encourage America to remain bogged down in funding Ukraine.

France is most concerned about Trump backing out of the Climate Change racket and also having to pay more of their share in the Ukraine War than they are of any other issue. I assure you, their intel agencies are very good, they know their objective and they use global diplomacy quite effectively to achieve these objectives.

I hope Trump does not just abandon Ukraine, certainly not without immense debate and effort to bring peace there. That said, the rest of the world must do more. Europe will either do so with money and weapons or they will do so with soldiers, their choice. Focusing on climate change and tightening the noose on their own populations is not exactly an approach that leads to success or prosperity when you have enemies in the region to rally against.
 

This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.

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This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.



:spinner:
 
Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests
And therein lies the problem NWO Macron has with the USA putting itself first for a change. France has nearly destroyed itself with wokeness and migrants. They are trying to make the farms go under. The Olympic's entertainment was a disaster. France is of little or no value to the United States or the world stage. Give Trump time, and they are all going to want to be on his good side.
 

This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.




Obviously many of them have the same mental disease as many American Leftists who have an unrealistic View of Trump. Have you forgotten that Trump warned the Europeans not to be dependent on Russian oil? and he was against the Nordstream pipeline? Does that sound like an Ally? it was the Germans and others who openly laughed at Trump for his concerns.

Sure, Trump will be smart enough to respect Russia as a Dangerous nuclear power and "get along" with Putin. Which is a much better plan than risking some inadvertant escalation that could lead to WW3
 

This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.

Don’t care.

France doesn’t pay my taxes nor offer to protect us from foreign aggressions. Etc.

Plus, they ain’t exactly a shining example of how to do things right.
 

This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.


Fuck France. This is what I see when someone mentions "France...

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This is what France sees after the election of Trump. Of course we will see people who will say they don't care. But having friends is important.​

The end of an American world​


This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn't know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he's even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump's electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.

It's a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party's success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of an open superpower committed to the world, eager to set itself up as a democratic model. It's the famous "shining city on a hill," extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The model had been challenged over the past two decades. Now, Trump's return is putting a nail in its coffin.

Trump views the world solely through the prism of American national interests. It's a world of power struggles and trade wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world where transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, ultimately, where the US president reserves his harshest words for his allies but spares the autocrats, who are seen as partners rather than adversaries.

Europe at risk of fracturing​

Europeans rightly have bad memories of the first Trump term. The second will be even more perilous, with war raging on their continent, initiated by a Russian power that flouts all its international obligations and is increasingly aggressive. If, as he threatened during the campaign, Trump ceases military aid to Ukraine and negotiates peace with Vladimir Putin in favor of the invader, the consequences of such an outcome will go far beyond the fate of Ukraine alone. They will affect the continent's security as a whole.

Trump's victory at the end of a campaign of unprecedented populist, misogynist and racist virulence also bodes ill for women, immigrants and democracy in general. The 47th American president inherits a system he began to put in place when he was the 45th, one in which the sacrosanct checks and balances, those safeguards supposed to preserve American democratic institutions, are already weakened, and in which the Supreme Court has gone over to his side. He succeeded in downplaying the assault on the Capitol by rioters he encouraged on January 6, 2021. The image of a head of the world's leading power who calls his opponents "enemies from within," deems some of them worthy of the firing squad, vilifies dissident media and threatens to send the army to hunt down illegal immigrants in Democratic cities can only encourage illiberal leaders the world over, including in Europe.

Trump's voters chose him in full consciousness, as did the business and tech leaders who rallied behind him, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO turned eminence grise. The rest of the world will suffer.

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