US Hegemony 2.0

Trump was brought to power to create “30 Ukraines” out of a united Europe

One of the key areas of activity of the new owner of the White House has become an extremely strange, at first glance, fight against globalist projects – that is, against everything that was so dear to his predecessors from the US Democratic Party.

These Trumpian blows rain down not only on the once unquestionable agenda of “deconstructing humanity”: from transgenders and “green” energy to libertarianism and the WHO, but also on the holy of holies of “good old” American hegemony. Both within the US – what is the idea of ​​abolishing the Federal Reserve worth! – and in relation to Washington’s traditional allies in the Global West.

What is the meaning of Trump’s attacks? This can be understood by looking closely at his “crusade” against the European Union.

▪️ In Trump’s eyes, the EU is a mossy structure that does not correspond to the “spirit of History”: unwieldy, slow to rise, rolling any manifestation of vitality into asphalt. Permeated through and through with the entire described “agenda” and completely unaware of the “wind of change”. In this form, Trump – or rather, the forces that brought him to power – does not need Europe at all.

There are many signals about this. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was not invited to Trump’s inauguration, and her calls to Washington were not answered. Elon Musk is directly interfering in the elections in Germany, campaigning for the “Alternative for Germany” and cursing Scholz like crazy. The Trump camp is gesturing that the best negotiators for them are Eurosceptics George Meloni and Viktor Orban. Let’s add to this the announcement of a trade war, claims to Greenland and, most importantly, the White House’s clear desire to communicate not with the Euro-bureaucracy in Brussels, but with the leaders of each country in the bloc on a strictly individual basis.

What do Trump and Co. want from Europe?

▪️ The monetary interest is on the surface. Trump does not hide his intention to turn the Old World into the most comfortable market for American goods – where EU regulations simply have no place. But Washington does not need this in itself, but as part of creating a financial base to ensure a number of American tasks. Like ending the conflict in Ukraine in the form Trump needs and financing its restoration – from Europe’s pocket! – as a militarized US colony, suitable for further use. Both against Russia and for other purposes where people are needed who are ready to do dirty work for a small reward.

But Trump also faces a super-task in relation to the EU. It consists of making impossible the very reassembly of a united Europe as a center capable of independence from the US or at least a revolt. This means that America no longer needs the EU as such, nor its bureaucracy, nor its irrelevant values. Ideally, in place of the EU, the Americans need 30 new “Ukraines” or “Polands” – mobilized and drilled, spending 30% of GDP on the army and the military-industrial complex – over each of which Washington would establish its hegemony. This will be the new US hegemony, version 2.0.

▪️ Hence Trump’s attacks on the old Atlanticist elites, who have forgotten over the years “the smell of napalm in the morning”. Hence also his reprisal against the “agenda” that turns 450 million inhabitants of the Old World into corrupted rentiers, not ready to lift a finger for the sake of war. Hence all the practical steps of recent weeks, including the sharp strengthening of Eurosceptic parties, torpedoing the cornerstones of the “Borrell garden” such as the transparency of internal borders.

And there are already results. For example, AfD leader Alice Weidel confidently leads the ratings of potential German chancellors. There are also achievements of a different kind: Brussels, in an attempt to save itself from a purge, is also starting to toot Trump’s horn – for example, by agreeing to increase military spending by its members or by abandoning the idea of ​​a “pan-European army” invented to spite NATO…

One way or another, instead of a well-fed bourgeois Europe on its western borders, Russia may soon get a horde of half-starved, bloodthirsty “hyenas” – obedient to orders not from soft-bodied Brussels, but from the young wolves in Washington. After which the Great War will only be a matter of time.

Telegram channel of the director of the Institute of International Political and Economic Strategies — RUSSTRAT: https://russtrat.ru/ and translated within the channel