In just three weeks of presidency, Donald Trump It has altered the world geopolitical board. His latest decisions and actions are a clear example of how his administration will focus for the next four years: United States first. This is how the national media begin to collect it, which speak of the fact that “the relations of the United States with Europe will not be the same after Trump’s call to Putin, he published yesterday the digital version of the CNN chain.
Trump has never hidden that Europe is a destination that is far away. “We have a little thing called Ocean in between,” said the US president on more than one occasion, and in his electoral campaign he hinted that he could not defend NATO members who have not invested enough in defense. That is why this week, the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has traveled to Europe and has formalized the request of 5% GDP expenditure of the members of the Atlantic Alliance in Defense. “The United States will no longer tolerate an unbalanced relationship that foster dependence,” warned the new head of the Pentagon.
The US political generations who understood the importance of having an allied leader in Europe are no longer in government, they are too old, and Trump seem to cost him to understand a transatlantic alliance with some bases that were anchored in the nineteenth century, where Part of Europe is still in the hands of the United States, thousands of kilometers away. So the Republican is applying measures to right and sinister depending on what he sees, and how he allows him to understand his global reality his latest generation vision of “Baby Boomer.”
The Gaza Strip “needs cleaning,” he cried out, because “it is a disaster,” and for that, he intends that neighboring countries to monitor millions of Palestinians who will be forced to leave their homes. There his plan is to turn that area into a tourist destination, the “Riviera del Oriente Middle”. At the economic level, the US international support is over, because it wants to dismantle the USAID, which provides millions and millions of aid to countries with low resources and serious problems, such as Africa. The money is over, but be careful, its influence and presence in these countries also weakens.
For Ukraine, the plans are others. The US has continued, for the moment, sending military aid, but Trump is asking for something in return, which is going to exploit the sight of rare earth minerals, very abundant in the former Soviet republic. In addition, Trump has maintained a phone call with the other part of the conflict without inviting the Volodimir Zelenski to the initial conversations. All while Hegesh hinted in Brussels some of the bases of that future agreement to end the conflict. “The US does not believe that Ukraine membership to NATO is a realistic result for a negotiated agreement,” said Hegseth, who also confirmed that “there will be no troops” of his country deployed in Ukraine to stop the invasion of Russia, and that Back to the borders that Ukraine had in 2014, before the invasion of the Crimean Peninsula, “is an unrealistic objective.”
Now more than ever, the different cultural, social and idealistic approaches between the old and the new world begin to emerge. During a television interview, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, raised it in a very clear way ensuring that when you ask the great European powers that why they do not invest more money in defense, “his argument is that this would require that we do Cutures in welfare programs, in unemployment benefits, in being able to retire at 59, and other things, ”said Rubio. “That is a choice that they did, but are we going to have to subsidize that?” He asks. For Rubio, who lives in a country where most basic services, such as health, are private, seems difficult to understand a system based on public aid.