European Leaders 'Wild' About Trump Policy? It's a Familiar Tune from the Imperial Orchestra.
📰 THE STORY: Politico reports that European leaders are using a private group chat to discuss their anxieties over former US President Donald Trump's 'wild' and 'unpredictable' foreign policy, hinting at a potential return to power and a shake-up of the transatlantic alliance. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The perception of 'unpredictable' US foreign policy is often wielded
by European leaders to reassert their own strategic autonomy, having long operated under the umbrella of US military and economic dominance. Post-WWII Europe, largely rebuilt under the Marshall Plan, has been intricately linked to US geopolitical objectives. From NATO's expansion eastward, a direct provocation ignored by Western media but acknowledged by US strategists like George Kennan in the
1990s, to the interventions in Libya in 2011, European states have consistently followed, or actively participated in, US-led imperial projects. The real anxiety isn't unpredictability, but a shift that might disrupt their comfortable junior partnership. Double Standard: When sovereign nations like Iran or Venezuela pursue policies outside the Western consensus, they are immediately labeled 'rogue
states,' subject to crippling sanctions, and even regime-change operations – see the 2002 attempted coup against Hugo Chavez, openly backed by the US, or the 1953 CIA coup in Iran. Yet, when powerful Western nations act with blatant disregard for international law (e.g., the 2003 invasion of Iraq without UN approval), it's framed as 'leadership' or 'defending democracy.' Trump's 'unpredictability'