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Donald Trump claims to have mastered the art of the deal. Perhaps next he should master the art of tact. Tact is making a point without making an enemy. Something I hope to accomplish today. But perhaps it’s too late to avoid making enemies.
Indeed, it is my belief that the United States is and has long been the enemy of Europe. Before we go any further, I think it is important that when we speak of Europe, we define exactly what we’re speaking about. Is it the European Union or is it something else? For better or worse, a European identity in Europe is not very strong.
A Frenchman sees himself first as French. An Irishman sees himself first as Irish. A few days ago, some of you went to a part of Croatia where the people don’t even see themselves first and foremost as Croatian. These are things that are worth keeping in consideration when we speak of Europe. Europe is the homeland of many nations, and these nations sometimes have divergent interests and destinies. This reality becomes even starker when the United States enters the stage.
The historical record shows that the American political class has long been anti-European. The American regime’s position towards Europe has been one of sabotage, subversion, and betrayal, and this includes the regime’s current incarnation. Because my time is limited, I won’t list all the examples, but if I did trust me, my speech would be much, much longer.
While it is certainly true that the American government does not often represent the beliefs or the will of the American people, on the matter of US-Europe relations I think that the regime and the people share the same attitude. America’s non-white population is obviously not pro-European, and in America’s white conservative population, we find possibly the most anti-Europeans of all. I can already hear the chorus of execration. “How dare I say such a thing?” But ask yourselves, do we ever contemplate and ponder the tenuous relationship between Canada and her people and Europe and her people? Or Australia and Europe? Only the United States and Europe has this love-hate and rivalry.
The fact of the matter is that America waged and won the war that ended what was left of European power and European civilization. And it was no accident. And I’m not just referring to World War II. Long ago, European intellectuals and defenders of their people correctly identified America as a paramount threat to Europe’s position as the center of the world, to European spirituality, and to the European people as a race.
Julius Evola, Pino Rauti, Giorgio Locchi, Céline, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger; but also Americans like Francis Yockey and Ezra Pound, all came to this conclusion. Now it seems that the United States and Europe are at a crossroads. Finally. Good, I say.
The single greatest political development in Europe of the past 80 years is perhaps upon us. At the same time, Europe is in the clutches of the weakest and most inept rulers ever to walk her soil. I’ve heard it said that the fates of the US and Europe are intertwined, that however goes the US goes Europe. We should think long on all that that really means. In any case, I don’t accept it. I don’t accept the conditions that the US imposed on Europe, that Europe be a gaggle of American satrapies, powerless, vulnerable, and ruined.
I believe it is time for Europe, for France, Britain, Italy, Germany, Ireland to rise up, reach out, and reclaim their destiny, their own destinies. Untwined. Either that or Europe remains weak, while a schizophrenic American empire squeezes out every last denarius from its vassals, all while threatening to take their territory and lecturing them for being “bad allies.” That’s a direct quote from Trump and Vance.
It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal. Truer words were never spoken. We’ve had 80 years to learn this lesson. Let’s not suffer 80 more.