The crisis between Europe and the United States is changing the world we know

The choice of Donald Trump, Brex, the rise of nationalism, and the extreme right in almost all Western countries, the multiplying of <x0-democrats” (deforms of democracy) even within the European Union.

All of this marks an age - old change, as important as the collapse of the Berlin Wall. I've experienced that change in the 1980s, as a newspaper correspondent “Le Monde” in Poland and Solidarnost, in the United States of the conservative revolution, and in the Soviet Union of Mikhail Gorbachev. I could talk about them because I had the tools to do this. But today the situation is different.

NATO Division

I don't feel like I have the right to describe this situation, since I haven't seen it in my own eyes, because I haven't personally experienced the turn the United States has experienced in the last place. So I set out with tense ears to reinvent a new world, not very guarantor. But stop talking about myself.

Clearly, the first reason why we are entering a completely new phase is the division of the Atlantic Alliance. While NATO was a solid institution, certain currents and political personalities could be criticised and charged with <x0-Atlanticism”.

Now that it is breaking apart, however, we understand its importance as well as the emptiness that will be created with its absence. At a time when China is preparing to become the world's major economic power, when the Western population is declining, while that African population is growing dramatically, where technology is no longer only Western, and the Chinese army is growing in its power at a mad pace, Westerners allow themselves the luxury of division.

The United States risks turning their backs on Europe and not just because of Donald Trump. Of course, this twist dates back to George W. Bush, visible since his second term.

Vice President Obama and now under Trump, the United States believed they should think first of themselves, not paying too much attention to Europe and the Middle East, and focusing on the big clash with China.

As wickedness and vulgarity abound, Donald Trump does nothing but follow the path of his ancestors. And so, the Alliance on which international stability is based after the defeat of Nazism, seems irreparably compromised. / France Inter World.al