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From the Counter-Currents 2025 Spring Retreat symposium on America and Europe in the Age of Trump.
If you’re a man of means, and you are attracted to a young, strong, financially independent woman, how do you turn her into your mistress? The problem is her independence. Therefore, you need to make her dependent. There are two basic things she can spend her money on: luxuries and necessities. Thus you should lean into the strong male provider role and offer to take care of her basic necessities. But how to you prevent her from simply going back to providing for herself? You encourage her to spend her own money on luxuries. Get her addicted to buying any silly, frilly thing she wishes. And, since you can never get enough of what you don’t really need, she’ll be hooked.
What does this have to do with US-European relations? It is an analogy for America’s relationship with Europe. America has taken the protector role and has underwritten most of Europe’s security needs since World War II. Then, after the fall of Communism, America extended the remit of NATO and took more and more nations under its wing.
This has allowed Europe to adopt the feminine and passive role of America’s mistress, devoting huge amounts of her wealth to luxury policies—a burgeoning welfare state, green energy, and open borders—while allowing her martial traditions to atrophy.
America, however, has a new president with new priorities. Donald Trump wants to create a kind of fortress North America, hence the grandiose talk about annexing Canada and Greenland, retaking the Panama Canal, and now a missile defense system in space. Trump calls it “The Golden Dome,” which is how a casino magnate would describe what was called “Star Wars” back in the eighties.
Why are we retreating to Fortress North America? Because there’s a dragon at loose in the world, a dragon that was fattened and unfettered by the United States out of folly and greed: China.
Given these new priorities, Trump sees Europe as a somewhat saggy, Botoxed, and incredibly expensive mistress who is past her prime and in urgent need of being dumped.
How does Trump dump a woman? He has some experience in these matters. He’s had three marriages, two divorces, and uncounted flings and mistresses.
The key to Trump is that he’s a big, beautiful narcissist. A big, beautiful narcissist always wants to maintain a positive self-image. But if Trump just says to Europe, “We’re through,” that makes him the bad guy.
So Trump has to make Europe into the villain here: she’s clingy, extravagant, picks unnecessary fights, and takes advantage of America. The more unjust and outrageous the accusations, the greater the chance that Europe will break up with him, thus allowing Trump to maintain his stainless self-image.
Trump now fully identifies with America. He’s impersonating America on the world stage. Which means he’s running America like his personal life. Thus instead of statesmanship, we have “Real Housewives of the EU” drama.
It’s no way to run a country. But maybe Trump will do something good for Europe by accident. Europe needs to recover her independence, kick her addiction to luxury beliefs, and—like Athena, Minerva, and Britannia—strap on some armor, recover her martial spirit, take control of her borders, and begin remigration.
But America and Europe are both stronger if they work together. We need a better relationship, not a broken one. My great fear is that Trump is creating an unnecessary rift between the two greatest blocs of the white world when we have common problems and common enemies. China could invade us someday, but the global south is invading us right now.
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Trump seems to be saying to Europe – sink or swim. This can only be a good thing. It seems that when Europe is not riven by internal wars, it seems to get bored and wander off in search of distractions. Trade and cultural wars might slap it in the face and bring some colour back into its cheeks.
Great article, I’m all for Fortress America!🙃
This has allowed Europe to adopt the feminine and passive role of America’s mistress, devoting huge amounts of her wealth to luxury policies—
You may be right but I see Europe more like a scheming gold digger milking a sucker for his money. Since we’ve been underwriting their defense costs- as you noted- we’ve racked up $35 trillion of debt while Europe has almost none.
That’s the Trump playbook: blame others for the fact that we rack up debts and run “trade deficits” with them. This is Trump’s “national narcissism”: America playing the victim of its own policies to maintain a positive self-image. The US has to own both of those behaviors.
European countries are very deep in debt. Governments in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, UK all have more debt than GDP, with Greece & Italy being in by far the worst shape. Plus, they have very low birth rates which will make it very difficult to maintain these debt loads in the future. Things are going to get very ugly in the near future.
And welfare payouts to black Americans are by far the largest cause of US deficits. Each time a black child is born the federal government effectively goes nearly $1 million deeper into debt because blacks take 5 times more out of the welfare system than they pay in taxes, throughout their lifetime. And that doesn’t even account for all the extra costs they impose such as requiring more law enforcement, courts, etc.
Europe as America’s dependent mistress is a brilliant metaphor! I wish I’d thought of it.
I have long advocated the withdrawal of US troops as a positive good for Europe. Our strength, translated into a “safety blanket” smothering the Old Continent, has allowed the European martial spirit to wither (consider reading the book Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? I forget the author’s name), and this both in terms of insufficient domestic military spending, and expansion of spirit-enervating and economically wasteful socialist welfarism, now egregiously extended to masses of Third World parasites.
Trump should be emphasizing that the withdrawal of US troops is only fair, as the countries of Europe collectively possess greater numbers and GDP than the US – and far greater than Russia, and that rebuilding their militaries and squeezing their welfare states will, like a program of enforced dieting and exercise, be tough in the short term but extremely beneficial long term. But Trump should also publicly state his support for remigration, and offer to assist European countries during the difficult days of actual remigration, when many will be threatened with, or will experience, civil wars.
All antiwhite institutions are our enemies. This includes ZOG, the EU, and NATO.
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