Donald Trump v. Europe: A thin line between love and hate

We all faced a moderate American friend who dates back a few weeks in Europe – Perhaps as much as a full semester! – With a “global perspective”. Maybe they returned with a new pair of shoes, a jacket from Galeries Lafayette or VanSome parts of the colloquial of the useful foreign language, and the renewed commitment to fresh fish grilled and perfect summer white wine. If you are reading this now, in fact, there are about 50/50 opportunity for you that you are an American at some point in your life. (I am definitely.)

But the thing in this syndrome-which, which, in versions of an attempt worthy of attention, comes with protests, “I am not really thinking of myself American “ Is her clear and painful efforts to separate the protagonist from these people? last The Americans, people who are impatiently for the rest of the world in neglect, and mocked lamentation.

There is a good amount of this that revolves around the full class differences: Certainly we do not want to synchronize with the hordes of a round of elderly in the Middle West in healthy fashion, and the figures of stocks in the European comic play before generation. These days, we may be afraid of a more contemporary version: Think about Kimberly and Justin from the outskirts of the external capital, while wearing entertainment times, shades with identical brands and shade, “discoveries” on Instagram, their known prices, and known dye prices.

But under those stereotypes that are destroyed for the time of the “American ugly”, another one, which was more arrested and shaded through fear, besides the loud and innocent ignorance of Kimberly and Justin-who ventured from Apple Band to the Venice, Edinburgh, or the valleys in an effective manner. These tourists who make fun of tourists and/or social media are the confusing general face of the greatest military and economic power in the world history, whose ability to control global affairs dominates, especially during the half century or so, without reform, without parallel.

The two dangerous Americans, those from the wings of companies, Wall Street, and national security agencies will not be truly arrested, where Kimberly and Justin will spend Saturday afternoon. They have acceptable morals (or at least they have done until recently), designer suits, upper golf and tennis equipment. They rarely need to speak to anyone who does not speak English. They are good at five -star hotels, gourmet restaurants and exclusive shops for many cities in the world. They have a favorite Italian red, and in fact, they have dinner with the wine maker and his family – an unforgettable experience!

You know who I will launch after that, right? in Donald TrumpThe different types of ugly Americans have reached its attached citizen. Its strange relationship with Europe-which is embodied this week in launching a devastating trade war, may seem a policy that comes with signs that are not used “multiple” that are not used “in the nineties of the nineteenth century and the 1930s-that cannot be explained or anomalous, but it arises from a long date of lack of mutual understanding. As is often the case with Trump’s policies, it is not good to pretend that his demolition of the Atlantic alliance did not come out of anywhere: the marriage of the euro Americans was heading towards the Ben and J-Lo region for some time. The new global system that Trump and his friends hope for Elon’s flavors to create by bombing things will not enter into existence; This does not mean that the old was working.

For Trump, the supposed policy is always personal, and it is reasonable to link his hatred known as European Union To tell the simple special grievance. (How many of these can be inside the individual’s psyche? No wonder that there is no room for anything else.) Fintan O Atoole notes In an extended analysis of the New York review, it seems that Trump believes that a fierce bureaucrats in the European Union have thwarted his plans for a “huge and beautiful expansion” for him Golf resort “wonderful” In Ireland. This happened (or rather it did not happen) more than a decade ago, but Trump felt that he was continuing to rotate the story again last month, during the Irish Taoiseach Visit the White House Micheál Martin.

If you do not find that the President of the United States may make horrific political decisions and very disturbance due to a long regulatory conflict over a golf course, you will not be aware. O’Toole also notes, Animus of Trump anti -Europe has a strong psychological sub -text, simultaneously rooted in the right -wing American MACTO position and his childish feeling of narcissistic injury.

At least since the United States-the European Union was divided into the invasion of Iraq in 2003-over the past, the most obvious early symptoms of imminent imminent divorce-“hostility towards Europe has been formed through a very sexual opposition to the American male force of European feminine weakness.” As a shareholder in a salon and former employee of Congress Mike Lovgrin note in a Unforgettable column At the end of this week, it was also when Representative Bob Nay, a Republican in Ohio who would have been soon, decided that the french fries would be called “Freedom Fries” in the House of Representatives cafeteria. In fact, I think those gender -American stereotypes as manly and men; The Europeans as standing or delayed – they return much further, and they were inhaled by almost all American men from the Trump generation.

This extends beyond the hatred of women in the school courtyard to the horror of full gay with Trump’s allegations that “the European Union was formed to confirm the United States,” said Labob Woodward during an interview in the first period and A frequent craftsman in February. (He has a tendency of Mynah-Bird to say the same thing completely, in the same rhythm, over and over again. “Bad” women Like European Commission President Ursula von der Lin and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde? Just the possibility of “their thorn” by them or, we should say, turned into B ** CH.

All of this is undoubted, but I think it is important to realize another layer of Tramban’s almost awareness, bottom or aspect of his anger, does not spoil towards the assumed system that females of contemporary Europe and its mysterious rejection of the bending of the knee. JD Vanceand Elon Musk There may be “other facts of the Trump regime” that has “developed a malicious attention to the destruction of the European Union,” Outol said, by trying to enable the various developed right -wing parties (which are not supportive of America, anything else they might be). These men try to play the “ugly American” evil roles, although there is no unique success, not success. (For the largest part, their plans swing almost badly like Musk, and Wisconsin interferes))

But Trump is never thinking of larger strategic phrases, or at least not about anything that goes beyond his people and desires. I said earlier that Trump had a relationship with love with Europe, and he is interested in this: He is very closer to the light light character in carved shorts and sunglasses fluctuating, and he is transferred open when changing the guard or wondering about the reason for the absence of sssel tours, than the incontinence games emerging from jewelry. Like many Americans of a certain category and personality, it is besieged with the British royal family and insisted, in challenging all available evidence, that it was Good friends With the late Queen Elizabeth. It was happy when Emmanuel Macron made an indelible shame, playing a host Military Show Bastille Day (And he became obsessed with its organization).

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I am sure that Trump will tell us that he Love Europe-that is, he loves the idea of ​​Europe because it is believed to be: wonderful, charming and distinguished second-class. This was preferred, of course, when its most prominent population was overwhelming, relatively poor and grateful for American tourism and American investment. It was more enjoyable – not to mention commercial exploitation – when all of these countries had their own currencies, and you can bring a set of colored banknotes but almost no value for children. The fact that the Union of Non -Technical Currency in Europe (and the “bad” organizational system with which it came) is clearly related to the high levels of living, including the best health care and the average expected life longer than the United States, must be in particular indigestion.

Of course, Trump does not care much about the facts, not to mention the theories of others. He may have listened in the middle of the road while musk, phones, or some other genius that wears a vulgar plan for the social and political weapons weapon in Europe (very real and dangerous) for the continent’s sculpture, Similar to the conferenceBetween the regions dominated by Russian and the American hegemony of captive authoritarian regimes. (This is the approximate O Atoole theory of the case.) But perhaps not. His view of the world, as I noticed, lacks any strategic cohesion: withdrawal from NATO and abandoning foreign aid does not correspond to its new imaginations or new delusions, and there is no trade war that is likely to send the global economy to recession and Turbido for his political party.

This brings us back to the basic problem behind all versions of playing ugly American roles, historically and in the restarting Trump system: it is rooted in weakness, not in strength. It is clear that this applies to the policy of fascist flavor in general, which often depends on the display of the parking lots and desires to a despised opponent, but in this case it also reflects the long American inferiority complex with regard to the culture of the “ancient world”.

This anxiety did not evaporate completely, even when the United States rose to the state of the dominant superpower throughout the twentieth century. A quarter of the road during this century, the arrogant steam associated with American cultural, economic and military dominance – which was undoubtedly very attractive to a lot of the world for a long time – now seems to be the clown and the dangerous. The Europeans began to realize the danger a long time before the Americans ’action, and now an inevitable torn tear is inevitable, even for those who wear the YANK ponds that pass the reality. In this, as in many other ways, Donald Trump works around the clock.

But what Trump and his followers cannot do, as they make mistakes about breaking things and congratulating each other by expressive symbols, is to force Europe back in the imagination player, or build a new American empire. It is very weak for that, very stupid. They can definitely blackmail a painful price from the world while trying, and the full account may be more than we can.