Suicide of the West: Cold War Between the United States and the EU

Europe is “below” of the American continent. Our basic institutions were inherited from Europe. Our democracy is Greek and British. Our universities are German. George Washington read it to improve himself, translated from French, and so were Thomas Jefferson ' ideals.

Europe represented a way to progress; America saw itself embrace that path, even crossing the ancient continent. After the revolution, as historian Joseph Ellis wrote, the Americans were sure that a new generation of Shakespeare, Dantesh, and Cycerons would be born on the soil of North America.

As a new mature nation, we got what Europe had, and we started democratising it for our purposes. The luxury hotel, it's a European palace, turned into a commercial company. Frederick Lou Olmsted visited England in 1850, marveled at the gardens of aristocracy, returned to America and turned what he saw in large public parks Central Park, fields near Capitol Hill, and many others.

Then, as a mature nation, we became partners of our parents. After World War II, a re-registered sunset was set up, led by Americans. There were confrontations and rivalrys, but under it, there was an unbroken awareness that these are our relatives.

This transatlantic partnership was a major historical achievement, an indefinable and imperfect effort to expand democracy, enhance rights, enhance freedom and build a world dictated by justice and not by force. Since 1945, it's the thing we've all taken for granted.

During the weekend we left behind, Trump submitted the partnership to threats. He said that the European Union is our <x0-enemy”. On Monday, Trump openly lined up beside Vladimir Putin, who has become the biggest moral and political enemy of Euro-American relations.

Trump basically rejected a project that has been oriented American culture and politics for centuries. He showed us a world where central ethics is that power can represent right.

But remember, Donald Trump only exists to put a lid on any poison tendencies that preceded him.

It takes a lot of hands to kill “Euro-American connection. Right-wing politicians and analysts began using Europe as a shooting sign for American liberals. They're a bunch of heathen Socialists, like those heretics in Berkeley and Cambridge.

EU attacks became the conservatives' unifying motto. Progressiveists also fell into the poisonous trap of racism. They saw the glory of Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Mozart, and the most interesting thing they had to say, was that they were white men who had died. Future historians will marvel at how sophisticated people deliberately made themselves so simple.

Eurocentism became a code of words for colonialism, oppression, and privilege, taking part in European history as a symbol of the whole. Europeans didn't help. After the Cold War, they have dedicated themselves to a post-nationalist project, which is very low and technical, and is now being destroyed.

The Euro-American political project is now approaching the last days of existence. George W. Bush fought Europe for the Iraq war. Barack Obama abandoned him for other regions. Now, as Robert Kagan writes in the “The Washington Post”, Trump is throwing graves at the Atlantic Alliance.

Trump may have gone to last week's NATO summit, recognizing himself the sole merit of increasing European military expenditures. Instead, he humiliated Europeans, reaffirmed threats of a trade war with Europe, and made it impossible for European leaders to do everything that might seem to support him.

These are the actions of a man who wants the alliance to fail. Putin's hug Monday was a triumphal dance over the Euro-American tomb. This isn't just the next fight inside the” family. The democratic “Alliance, which has been the foundation of the liberal world order led by the Americans, is breaking apart. At one point, and perhaps sooner than we hoped, global peace -- that alliance and that rank underestimated -- will also be dissolved. Despite our human desire to hope for better, things will not be in order at all”.

Kagan wrote these lines before Monday's press conference, and now his main argument is twice true. If you thought we could survive “Trump and then back to normal, you can probably already see that this view is wrong. The fundamental rules of our world are being rewritten.

Today, Europe and America face common risks and problems, including the establishment of strong-handed leaders, who want to restore world order. We've lost the connections that could let us fight together. Worse yet, wolves are not just in huts; they are in the decision - making room. Be careful what can happen if you get off the line. / New York Times