General Discussion

...his contempt for Ukraine and need for revenge is driving every move.




The Shifting World Order: "Trump and Vance Have Contempt for the Europeans"

Mearsheimer: President Trump and Vice President Vance have contempt for the Europeans. When Trump was elected in 2016 and took office in 2017, he had two principal foreign policy goals. One was to abandon engagement and adopt a containment policy toward China – in other words make a 180-degree turn. The second goal was to fundamentally change relations with Russia and particularly with President Vladimir Putin. He was successful in changing our policy toward China. But he was unsuccessful regarding our policy toward Russia. He basically continued the policy on Ukraine and Russia that his predecessors had pursued. He’s going to do now – in his second term – what he was unable to do in the first.

...JD Vance gave his famous speech at the Munich Security Conference. After that, it was clear that Trump was pursuing a radical policy toward Europe. This was all carefully crafted, and it was designed to humiliate the Europeans and put them in their place. I’m sure that Vance was a key player here. He has long been committed to ending the war in Ukraine and to greatly reducing the U.S. footprint in Europe.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-shifting-world-order-trump-and-vance-have-contempt-for-the-europeans-a-7e70c5b5-b307-45cc-940e-62e40a506ad2