Trump’s European Reset Is Reclaiming America’s Leadership– americanactionnews.com
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President Donald Trump is letting the world know that the days of American foreign policy malaise are over. European leaders, the left-wing propagandists are predictably aghast. There are clear echoes, however, of both former Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in this new era of American foreign policy. It’s a resonance that should be reassuring for Americans.
European leaders can sit at hastily-arranged dinners and hold their multilateral confabs all they want, but they can’t escape history. Europe has been fractured by culture, language and ancient animosities that have kept the region in some stage of conflict for centuries. In the last century, European conflicts ignited two world wars that were the deadliest in human history.
Today, European leaders have allowed their nations to be overrun with refugees from the Middle East, bowed to the climate mob at the expense of their competitiveness and most relevant to the present Ukrainian situation, allowed Russia to continue its energy blackmail of the continent. They just backed a Gaza reconstruction plan that was developed without Israel and backs the Palestinian Authority.
What Trump is doing is asserting U.S. leadership after years of American retreat. During the Obama and Biden administrations — 12 of the last 16 years of U.S. foreign policy — a principal tenet of the Left’s ‘lead from behind’ strategy was to allow the European Union and the fragmented powers of NATO to assert greater control over the strategic direction of the Western alliance. During that time, the world has undoubtedly become more dangerous and less secure.
Mr. Trump’s more forceful approach to Europe may be causing palpitations in the press and on social media, but in reality, is backed by strong precedent.
