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There is an old joke in the UK about the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, between 1979 and 1990, and it runs something like this. When the Iron Lady took power, she found a country with an ailing economy. Fortunately, she reinvigorated that country in just ten years. Unfortunately, that country was Japan.
Cute enough, as jokes go. It works on the comedy of surprise, whereby you expect one answer but get another. Its accuracy is one for political historians – or fans of Mrs. Thatcher – to squabble over. Actually, I am not as much of a Thatcher fan-boy as most conservatives. There was more of an atmosphere of conservatism about the Grantham grocer’s daughter than the real thing, for which you have to go back to Harold MacMillan. Old-school Tories still cluck about how she beat the unions, specifically the miners’ union. Perhaps, but her police force – just as weaponized as they are now – went one step further with the actual miners and beat them up during one of Britain’s more unedifying episodes. Also, she did nothing whatsoever to halt the burgeoning growth of the public sector, well on its way even then to being the bloated and largely useless behemoth it is today. But back to the point of the joke.
The appointment of a world-historical premier affects other nations than their own, and the election of Donald Trump is going to have repercussions for Europe. It might be a good idea, then, for European nations to have at least cordial relations with the incoming president, but cordial seems not to be on the bar menus of Europe. The UK in particular got off to a flying start in international relations, with Sir Keir Starmer’s organ-grinder monkey – aka David Lammy – having roundly lambasted 47, accompanied by a range of dim-witted insults from his other current cabinet colleagues. This was, of course, back in 2016, when it was deemed safe to do so. It is not quite as advisable now.
The Europe which jeered the incoming Trump eight years ago is a different proposition now in four main ways. Firstly, NATO and international defense, as there are two major conflicts going on today that were not factors in 2016. Then, Trump nagged the European NATO countries about their financial shortfall. Now, he is entitled to treat them a little more robustly than just a dinner guest who skips to the bathroom when the check arrives, because one of those wars, involving a hostile nuclear power, is on Europe’s doorstep, and NATO (specifically Ukraine’s membership) would be a major factor in any ceasefire terms. Trump has stated that he wants to end the incursion by Inauguration Day, an announcement that has spooked the German Chancellor (whose government collapsed 12 hours after Trump was elected) into calling Putin himself to try and beat the President-elect to the punch. His name’s Scholz but I read it at first as Schulz. Didn’t he draw the Peanuts cartoons? Sounds about right for Germany.
What the Europeans fear most is that Trump will broker a ceasefire deal, with a mooted demilitarized buffer zone, without including them. As soon as the US election results were in, President Donald T. raced to have closeted talks with France’s lame-duck President Emmanuel Macron. Donald Tusk, that is, EU grandee and inexplicably voted in by the people of Poland. Macron squeaked out a veiled warning to 47: “Nothing must be decided on Ukraine without the Ukrainians, or in Europe without Europeans”.
The French might say in response, “Qui le dit?” In America, that translates as, “Who says?”
Incidentally, and this applies particularly to Macron, Trump’s version of the Restoration brings something else that rattles the cages of the gauleiters of Europe, elected and unelected. It’s Trump’s sheer presence in public, which can only justly be described as imperial. I watched his entrance at UFC and it was awesome, in the original sense of the word, before it was shang-haied by teenagers. Macron, a dime-store Jupiter, rarely appears in public these days because ordinary French people start shouting Gallic profanities at him. Trump at UFC was Tiberius entering the effing Colosseum, mate.
Secondly, a broadly Left-wing EU has shifted to the Right – or the “far Right”, to use MSM parlance – in the interim. France’s Rassemblement National, Spain’s Vox Party, Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia, Germany’s AfD, PVV in the Netherlands, and the Sweden Democrats are all far more powerful than they were eight years ago, and groups within the EU itself, such as Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations, have consolidated this waxing influence. In addition to this, France and Germany are in the midst of internal political crises.
Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbàn – who toasted Trump’s victory with champagne – could turn out to be the President-elect’s biggest ally in Europe. Trump has called the leader of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party “a great man” (Trump never goes in for insincere hyperbole), and stated that people “dislike him because he is too strong”, a fate Trump himself is about to suffer, although willingly as long as no one else shoots him. The response of the Hungarian press shows rather than makes an important point. Csaba Lukacs is the Managing Director of Magyar Hang, a conservative media outlet critical of Orbàn, and this is a telling comment of his: “Trump’s success is an encouragement and a boost for populist forces in the world.”
Well, quite. That’s why we who rather like populist forces are all cheering, you Magyar meathead. This is exemplary of something increasingly apparent in Left-wing responses to Trump’s victory; The Left see it as the most terrifying of glitches, while the Right view it as the most promising of features.
Third is trade. Europe has not diversified its trading partners much since Trump was last at the helm, and are still heavily US-reliant. Knowing how he has stated that he will deal with China, the EU should beware that Trump doesn’t say, “Nice little tariff-free trade arrangement you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” Luisa Santos is Deputy Director of BusinessEurope, a powerful lobby group representing the interests of thousands of companies, made a rather plaintive plea concerning the possibility of tariffs: “We’re still hoping that because of the importance of the economic relationship, they will be reconsidered and we won’t have them.”
The importance of the economic relationship to whom? With Volkswagen recently closing plants and laying off workers, Ms. Santos is effectively saying, “pretty please, Mr. President.” Perhaps, given the fact that the Volkswagen – the “people’s car” – was Hitler’s favorite, and Trump is literally Hitler, he might help them out, not only with tariff-free trade, but also via tariffs on Chinese electric cars, the competition from which is VW’s biggest threat. Hildegard Müller, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry, sounded an ominous note: “Many in Europe have not yet fully understood what it means to think about geopolitics and economic policy together.”
You bet, Hildegard.
There exists no formal trade agreement between the two power blocs, and Trump does not come from the political class. He flies business. Also, he is clear that part of making America great again involves the return of manufacturing to the US from its present out-sourcing policies. EU nations can no longer expect to lure American companies with tax-breaks and the promise of all that European culture when Trump is about to make America domestic business-friendly again (that won’t fit on a hat), and European culture is going to hell in a Volkswagen.
Finally, what we have come to call “woke” culture will be contentious, and suffice to say that Trump staffers are unlikely to be required to add their personal pronouns to their social media and email accounts. Up with this Trump will not put, although it remains central to the EU/globalist program of Bezmenovian destabilization, and it will only increase friction between the new President and a continent in the grip of this malevolent malaise.
On the subject of social media, while the EU is attempting to ban Elon Musk’s X platform, Trump just put the world’s richest man in charge of cutting government waste, so that’s another enemy the EU has made which it didn’t need to. Ramaswamy and Musk may sound like a fashionable New York couturier, but what is developing into almost a comedy double act (the pair look like they are having fun) will be looking at what the EU costs the US government and why.
As for the opinion of the European media, I don’t imagine that when Trump wishes to know what’s happening in Europe he opens his copy of Le Monde. Kissinger famously asked who he should call if he wanted to call Europe. I don’t imagine it costs Trump sleep. When Trump says he wants to put America first, he is not necessarily talking about pre-eminence on the world stage, and he certainly isn’t doing it for the spotlight. Despite the Left constantly harping on about Trump’s ego, there is nothing wrong with ego in politics, in fact I would deem it essential. But if ego trips over into narcissism, the you have a problem. I don’t see Trump as narcissistic. You need to go back to Paris and find little Macron to tick that box.
So, Europe faces one of two humiliations after Trump’s astonishing comeback (unlike Trump, I rather like hyperbole). Either it continues its economic and demographic death spiral while the US pulls back from the brink, rounds the horses, saddles up, and leads the charge, or the cavalry Trump heads pulls Europe’s sorry ass out of the fire once again (to give it a rather Americanized perspective and vernacular).
The other humiliation European leaders face is to emulate the American Left-wing media, who have continued in the same bizarre manner in which they preceded the election, part psychosis, part fever-dream. The meltdown across the American Leftist media, both mainstream and social, was fun for a while, but soon became like watching asylum inmates shrieking and spitting in some Victorian Bedlam. A particular theme is women claiming to feel “threatened” by the second coming of The Donald. Some even claim to feel physically threatened, and I have a pet theory about this. I once knew a woman who confessed to having rape fantasies, and apparently this is not uncommon. Oh, well. Whatever turns you on, as the hippies used to say. But there is more than an element of this in the frisson the cable news women display when griping about Trump. Ooh, that rough man with his hands all over me…
I’ve noted before that once Trump and his assembled Avengers begin fixing things even people who voted for Harris wanted fixed, and the Europeans look on enviously, there will be defections back to reality. The only ones who will resist are those who seem almost genetically predisposed to do so, and for a reason which hardly bears pointing out. Imagine, if you will, a Norman Rockwell painting. A mother is doing the dishes while her young daughter enjoys her lunch at the oak table. The child speaks:
“Mother, why is it wrong to remove known immigrant gang members from sanctuary cities, even though that’s what frightened and genuine immigrant families want?”
“Because it’s what Donald Trump wants, darling.”
“And, mother, why is it wrong to put a man so fit and healthy that he can bench-press aged 70 in charge of the nation’s health?”
“Because it’s what Donald Trump wants, darling.”
“Also, mother, why is it wrong to stop men who think they are women from being in the army?”
“Because it’s what Donald Trump wants, darling. Now, eat up. If you keep asking questions, your Soviet-style millet soup will get cold.”
Although Harris ran on a solid anti-Trump ticket, The Donald didn’t return the favor. He ran on an anti-globalist ticket. And the globalists don’t want practical, well-thought-through answers to social problems, not when causing those social problems in the first place is a big part of their remit. And they don’t want any more Norman Rockwell paintings, either. Those days are supposed to be gone.
But Trump wants them back, or something very much like them. He’s a conservative, a dragon the good sir knights of the Left believed they had slain. And a conservative conserves the past values of his country, the good ones, the ones worth conserving. That’s what makes the country, the nation, an equally troublesome monster to put to the sword or lance. Why should Trump help Europe? He wants to help his own country first. The Europeans forget that there is not only a new sheriff in town, it’s the old one back to finish the job for good and all. But the town is the whole country, one nation under God, and perhaps a new God-emperor. And America is a country whereas the EU just thinks it is.
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I wish I could share your optimism, but I fear that well-thought-through anything is not Trump’s forte. He likes to brag about his ‘very good brain’, but I think his very good instincts are closer to his real strength. We can only hope he appoints people who are competent and loyal to do the thinking for him, but he usually only seems to manage one or the other…
Still, imagine if we had Kamala!
As a White nationalist from Europe I started to worry when TRUMP married off his daughter Tiffunny to an Arab sheikh. I could somehow come to terms with J.D.Vance having an Indian wife as Ousha seems to be a nice girl. But it shows how much value these elites put on their White indentity.
Yes, that’s right. The superrich are basically colorblind. But it’s always been that way, only geographical distances, cultural differences and religious prejudices have held it back. A hundred years ago, that would have meant a sheik locking Tiffany up in his harem, and I don’t think Trump would have accepted that.
I too was very upset about Tiffany. She sets a very bad example to other White women. Could it be she was too plump/fat to marry a White rich man? Perhaps for an Arab she was just fine. Arabs love big White women.
Well done!
People desperately want Trump to be a savior, a Caesar, a Bukele, but he’s not. He proved he is just hot air. Sooner or later history tells us a tough man will emerge, as conditions become unbearable only a hard correction will fix it. Some 80% of Europeans will not survive the tough times.
The collapse of Europe, will mean the collapse of America, too! Who made America, America, if not Europe..!…?
Coming a new Dark Age, after the electrical generating stations STOP….there won’t be enough white people to repair the infrastructure, run the military, economy, government, law & order…???
You’re right about Trump, but wrong that someone else will arise to save us (though I certainly would support such a leader). It’s possible for this “managerial system” to continue for centuries, even though it is fundamentally parasitic off of the human (moral, martial, cultural, and intellectual) capital of the Western past. Trump’s victory – which is genuinely, albeit only modestly, good for the Occidental cause – was not a function of a huge white racial awakening, except perhaps a bit at the margins (prowhites probably had a bigger impact in 2016). It was powered by an unusually large swing of working class nonwhites (mainly Hispanics, but including all groups) to Trump (I read one commentator asserting that Trump even won a majority of the Amerindian vote). Many cities (which in America are almost completely dominated by Democrats and nonwhites) also saw the defeat of their procrime, Soros-funded District Attorneys.
My point is that while the Democrats as a party are wholly evil, not every Democrat voter is a wild-eyed Bolshevik/BLM/antifa revolutionary. I know very decent people who both voted for Kamala (because they are ideologically ignorant and simply dislike Trump, or are passionate about abortion “rights”) and against our local leftist city councilman. As times toughen, these people – whose ignorant past voting produced the harder times – move Right. That move does not actually resolve the underlying problems, but it does apply some “Band-aids” so as to give the overarchingly awful System yet more breathing space. My suspicion is that, by the time the system truly collapses (we all agree that it is deeply unstable, primarily but not exclusively for race-denialist reasons) whites will have been reduced to powerless minorities in all or nearly all white nations.
System collapse cannot be counted on to save our race and nation(s). Only constant rightist education and activism to change the racial consciousness of the majority of whites from white guilt to white pride and will-to-endure will build the critical mass necessary to save us.
“Some 80% of Europeans will not survive the tough times.” Should have included ‘us’ & ‘White’ as in – some 80% of us Europeans aka White will not survive the tough times. By European means the White Race from Europa to Australia.
Trump’s intentions and abilities may be largely beside the point.
The simple gravitional effect of his presence should move the European populations in a less suicidal direction.
At some point the Europeans are going to have to grow up and reclaim their sovereignty and stop acting like Africans with regard to their relations with each other. Americans can’t do it for them.
This well-written article certainly gives the reader a dose of optimism. I hope it is prescient, though count me sceptical. Trump will make a few real improvements here, perhaps most especially his Wall on the southern border (he or his family or Vance etc, must know that, if he fails a second time to build that damn wall, it will be a permanent humiliation for him). But I don’t think he has a large or pliable enough Congressional majority to inaugurate a true, New Deal-sized policy revolution.
As for his positive effect on Europe, it would be threefold: forcing the Euro-parasites to ramp up their military spending; triggering greater and more forceful European immigration restrictionism, especially if he follows through with his promised mass illegal alien deportations (which could be copied in Europe); and continuously undermining the moral authority of the leftist-antiwhite EU bureaucracy.
I find pro-Trump foreigners quite forgiving of his flaws, if and when they spot them. Perhaps I similarly fawn over Viktor Orban…
Just because we see him as a lesser evil. He’s not Ike, he’s not Goldwater, he’s not Nixon, he’s not Reagan, even not Bush Sr. But he is still better than Kamala.
To Europe hard times are coming.
Firstly, the globalist elites, which are someway incorrectly called the “world government”, are clearly reorienting themselves from the US to China, and now China will be the only superpower, and its vassal Russia will be the overseer and “prison guard” in Europe, the “gendarme of Europe” of a new type, just like it was in the 19th century in Holy Alliance.
Secondly, they deliberately let Trump win the election in order to make him a scapegoat for the collapse of the US. The US is unlikely to fall apart, but they will return to isolationism, maybe not quite the Monroe type, but they will leave Europe. The Americans do not want to interfere in European affairs anyway, and they never wanted to. In the end, the vital interests of the US are the Pacific Ocean and the Middle East, but not Europe.
Thirdly, we see the emergence of a New Chinese Empire, which in addition to the PRC also includes the DPRK as a direct subordinate, and vassals on a longer leash – Iran with its Palestinian proxies, Pakistan, Russia. Well, and Africa has simply already been bought by Beijing. In general, such a new Chinese empire will own the most powerful armies in the world – the PLA and the Russian army, the largest nuclear arsenals, the world factory, the world’s mineral resources, especially energy (well, and the war in Donbass is for lithium for China, and not for some stupid “Russian world”), grain reserves (occupied Southern Ukraine), and lobbyists and fifth columns all over the world. Soon the PRC will grab Taiwan and also get a world monopoly on chips. (And Lukashenko with his potatoes will also give a monopoly on potato chips).
History shows that Russia has won major wars only as part of coalitions. Both the French and the Germans were defeated not by the Russian Empire and the USSR alone, but by the anti-Napoleonic and anti-Hitler coalitions. And now Russia is also part of the coalition. This coalition is invincible, because it consists of the VIVID peoples, which are not afraid to fight and to die. Here I would add, that Ukraine once again found itself – though not through its own fault – on the wrong side, but on the side of the rotten and impotent West, which is not capable and will not fight even for ITS own survival, not to mention saving someone else.
Old wise Chinese Sun Tzu taught that the best thing is to win wars without fighting. So the PRC is winning, and this is also beneficial to Russia, among other things, it gets rid of its excess population, which it will not need in the New Chinese empire, because neither 140 nor even 100 million Russians are needed for the extraction of minerals and their transportation to the world factory China.
And in this “New World” Europe and Europeans are not needed at all. For the world elites the Europeans are not useful workers, because they eat too much and want to have bigger salaries. The Asians for creative jobs and Africans for manual jobs are more prophitable. And Europeans are also bad subjects, because they want to have some civil rights and freedoms. It is better to replace them with another peoples which will obey without questions and objections and work for a bowl of stew.
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