German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Trump take the photo at the former amphitheatre at the G7 summit in Taormina on the island of Sicily in Taormina, Italy, May 26, 2017.
For nearly four years, leaders and leaders from allied countries across Europe watched the United States under President Donald Trump with surprise and horror as he insulted European Union leaders and eroded transatlantic appointments with his “America First” agenda, damaging america’s symbol in the process.
They were dismayed when he called German Chancellor Angela Merkel “stupid” and former British Prime Minister Theresa May “stupid. “They were horrified when he called the EU an ‘enemy’ and were surprised when he said that ‘no one treats us much worse than the European Union’. When Trump declared THAT NATO “obsolete,” the alarm bell rang from Brussels to the Baltic countries.
For top European leaders, more concerned than Trump’s words were his actions, such as the U. S. withdrawal from the Paris weather deal and the World Health Organization and, this week, blocking selection to lead the World Trade Organization.
After all this, you’d just want it to be a shock.
However, in interviews with BuzzFeed News, four European diplomats and government officials said they were completely disbeliever by the chaos caused by Trump in the US presidential election.
One official, a foreign policy adviser to an EU president, compared this year’s US election to some of the wildest elections on the margins of his continent, but with far greater and frightening consequences.
“It’s Eastern Europe and that little nuclear suitcase that Trump owns,” said the official, who agreed to be interviewed on an anonymity to speak freely about the issues.
In Ukraine, where the last presidential election was marred by a great fraud and poisoning and tinged with live drug screenings and debates in sports stadiums, an official of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership called the US election “crazy” and “totally toxic. “
All the officials who spoke to BuzzFeed News cited the political and racial animosity that some have brought to the United States to the breaking point of the civil war as a major concern. Officials also said that they and their European colleagues were stunned by Trump’s undemocratic rhetoric and his attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the vote by saying it would be rigged. They also said they were baffled by a acting AMERICAN president, the so-called leader of the loose global, who indicated that he would not settle for the effects of the election if he lost.
While none of the leaders became explicit in favor of former Vice-President Joe Biden, four advised and one explicitly stated that the victory of a Democratic challenger would be the desired outcome for Europe.
Things wouldn’t necessarily or without delay, but with Biden as the winner, an adviser to the EU president said, “There would be an adult in the room you can communicate with, and when he promises something, there’s a smart point of expectation that he’s going to meet. . . which has not been the case in the last 4 years. “
The election comes at a time when America is angrier and more divided than ever before, and when a fatal pandemic erupts. As Americans vote by mail or move to the polls on Election Day, they will likely vote for maximum consequences The vote of their lives and the consequences of their movements are maximum that are likely to be felt beyond U. S. borders.
In statements to BuzzFeed News from Vilnius, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius’ political discontent in the United States “seems very unusual. “
“We are used to this spectacle. We hope and hope that the United States will solve this problem, only in the interests of the United States, but for others,” he said.
Linkevicius said the EU depended on the US to be a leader in foreign affairs. America’s absence as a result of Trump’s “America First” policy, he said, felt in times of crisis when Washington, D. C. , sometimes intensified and led the foreign response.
He cited the political crisis in Belarus as an example. While the United States has imposed sanctions on several Belarusian officials and condemned the authorities’ violence against nonviolent protesters, Trump’s management has played a minor role.
“We expect a more important role for these high-power countries, especially the United States,” Linkevicius said.
He said his opposing numbers from other EU countries felt the same way, as did those on the outer edge of the 27-nation bloc.
In Ukraine, for example, the management officer said U. S. presence and influence had been particularly weakened since Trump ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to remove former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in May 2019 after false rumors that she was criticizing him. Ukraine, Kurt Volker, resigned in September last year when the Democrats’ political trial investigation accelerated, but none of the representatives have yet been replaced.
The official, who refused to speak officially because he was not allowed to speak to a journalist, said Kiev would like to see the roles fulfilled, but not if that meant bringing the country back to the cross-section of American politics, which happened. Trump’s political trial.
Ukraine’s mistrust stems from this saga and, more recently, the debatable efforts of Trump’s private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has continually made unfounded accusations about Biden and his son Hunter in the country. Trump, who called the country “corrupt” and “full of horrible people,” himself propelled the unfounded accusations opposed to the Biden in the last presidential debate, much to Kiev’s dismay.
The Ukrainian official said his country would be extremely happy with the end of the U. S. election. Until that’s the case, they made a request: “We don’t need anything to do with your fucking choice. Please keep us out.
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