The Guardian view on JD Vance in Munich: Europe must stand up for its values | Editorial
IN 2007, Vladimir Putin Delivery A letter at the Munich Security Conference that stunned Western diplomats by launching an unexpected attack on the international order after 1989. The United States, which Mr. Putin claimed, manufactured a unipolar world “in which there is one master, one sovereignty.” Seven years later, the Russian forces illegally busy The Crimea, and the separatists funded by Moscow, seized lands in eastern Ukraine, in what turned out to be the sects of the full invasion.
After nearly two decades, annoying letter In the same place where the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, may prove that it is similarly important as political geography continues to shift in the twenty -first century. Mr. Vance was expected to focus on last Friday’s comments on Ukraine, after a week it seems that Donald Trump was unilaterally. Preparation To negotiate the complete ceasefire deal on the conditions of Mr. Putin. Instead, his platform was used as a pulpit from which the European European allies wander around issues such as cultural pluralism, immigration and social media. Unreasonable, the Trump administration is now an activity of extremist right -wing parties such as Germany’s alternative to Deutschend, whose leader Alice Widel, Choose to meet In Munich.
One month after Trump 2.0, Mr. Vans and other borrowers such as Elon Musk are full of ideological anger and vulgar self -limit. However, the Vice President’s use of cultural war, similar to Maga to attack European governments, has reached more than just a hunting. In a very fateful way, tearing the idea of the “West” that shares basic values.
In the post -Cold War era, the Atlantic alliance was based on a common commitment to the international standards that this White House maintains in contempt. Mr. Trump’s approach brutally laboratories Determination To exploit Ukraine’s weakness to seize 50 % of rare Earth metals on favorable terms. Europe must quickly learn to adapt to the isolation it considers an ideological and economic competitor.
Difficult conflicts and challenges are inevitable. Mr. Vans Excitement From “digital censorship” in Europe is an introduction to future attempts to see Systems One of the American technology companies through the European Union digital services law. With regard to security and defense, climate work and the conditions of via Atlantic trade, European countries will need to find unity to stand in the “first American” bullying tactics, and start laying the foundations for greater strategic and economic independence.
This week’s crisis interview In Ukraine in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron, in a short notice, holds a step in the right direction. Amid the justified fears of the new imperial sculpture, it is necessary to ensure that Europe, along with Ukraine itself, plays a full role in any future negotiations with Mr. Putin-and all of this, given that the United States’s apparent expectations will be the police.
Europe was slow to wake up on the effects of a newly polarized and multi -polar world, as through Atlantic relations are no longer linked in the same way. The new reality will feature Trumpian Bluff, Bluster and BRINCMANSHIP. After visiting Mr. Vans to Munich, leaders can barely say they have not been warned. The task is now to find ways to protect the European model from an increasingly evil American administration you like to see it fails.
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