The Trump administration is waging a culture war on Europe by aggressively promoting the Maga movement’s political and ideological allies on the continent and publicly humiliating the EU on the world stage, a joint report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and European Cultural Foundation has concluded.
The study argues that the US president is actively seeking to interfere in European elections, transform the transatlantic relationship toward conservative values and rally Europe’s rightwing populists around the theme of free speech.
The idea that foreign policy is used to try to influence foreigners. Whatever next?
Well, next is probably the EU telling us all how successful they are with soft power….
Bloody hell that article was a load of incoherent dribbling even for Henley.
I have been convinced for some time that Guardian columnists do not actually exist and are in fact random word generators.
This is the only way that I can rationalise their unswaying support for the indefensible.
Seeking to interfere in other countries’ elections? But surely the Guardian… And the Labour Party…
OT: Does the article above this one have a permalink?
They’re never grateful are they?
Whence comes the idea that you can’t try to influence a foreign election? Was it made up out of whole cloth in 2016 for the Russia russia russia con?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
It’s ok when they do it:
But they don’t “influence”, they “call for”. It’s different because they have good intentions and we have bad. That plus looking at the world as they would like it to be instead of how it is explains >80% of what the leftists think
You jest of course. Here’s the European Council on Foreign Relations boasting about directly interfering in Georgia’s elections:
The next para is also very interesting:
Trying to end the war in Ukraine is “ominous” (!!!)
Anyway, the EU is actively engaged in destabilising Georgia’s democratically elected government because they disagree with the Georgian voters. This is called “strengthening democracy” 😀
Remind me, how many Labour activists and Grauniad readers went to the US to work for the dribbling imbecile Kamala Harris at the last election. I think it was two hundred.
The fact that this probably helped Trump rather than hindered him is by the by – though it may actually provide an oblique lesson to us, here.
Don’t forget Operation Clark County in 2004.
Most European governments are doing the MAGA persuasion think for him.
The Guardian has been waging a culture war on Europe for all my life. It was not necessary. For example for years The Observer was a left wing rag without being a bonkers civilisation-hating preacher. So it was a matter of choice for the Guardian.
“You’re fighting a CULTURE WAR, bigots” – people conspiring to replace your culture with African and Middle Eastern cultures
OT, but why is Tim’s title-less post above (category: art) impossible to comment on? Or is this just an Android problem?
Already sorted, but you actually need to click the title to make the first comment and make the “x comments” counter appear.
SO you actually need the title to make comments possible.
A propaganda “study” in anti-Americanism by ECFR and the ECF…
Do you remember how we used to feel sorry for Soviet citizens being fed a diet of lies all the time by their regime media?
The study suggests conditions are “ripe” for European leaders to walk off Trump’s “film set”. Polling shows European sentiment – the sense of belonging to a common space, sharing a common future and subscribing to common values – is strong, it says.
Rees-Mogg in the Telegraph has a wonderful suggestion for … well, see for yourself.
A child born to a British mother, who was herself born in these Isles, normally has a right to British citizenship. Thus, Donald Trump could become a subject of His Majesty, granting him eligibility to stand for Parliament at the next election in 2029, shortly after his term as office as American president ends. If he were then elected, the King could send for him to ask him to form a government as prime minister.
This constitutional possibility, an admittedly remote one, has the great virtue of winding up po-faced Lefties who suffer from Trump derangement syndrome, but it also would be an excellent idea, as this country needs a jolt of Trump to extricate it from the slough of despond.
Also, BoJo is the only former British prime minister eligible to be US President.
He claimed to have renounced his US citizenship after being dunned to pay US CGT on the sale of his London house. Whether he really did, of course, is unknown to me.
P.S. I suppose Bonar Law could have been US Prez, given that one (suspected) Canadian citizen had already achieved it.
You don’t need to be a British citizen to vote or stand for election in the UK. Bryan Gould, Paul Beresford are New Zealanders, Catherine West, Marcus Fish are Australians, Peter Hayne is Kenyan, and a whole horde are Irish.
All those nations are former members of the British Empire. Not sure a typical US citizen can.
Of course St Barack of Obama wasn’t interfering in British affairs when he intervened on behalf of Remain because referendums aren’t proper elections and the cause was righteous.
Because the US Dems wanted a diplomatic bridge to their wet dream of hyper-regulation, for which the UK should sacrifice its sovereignty…
And Labour sent people to the US to influence the 2024 election.
Its always bad when we do it, totally right and proper when they do it.
How does that work? How do you humiliate someone else?