European Union President calls Trump a threat - up there with China, ISIS, Russia..

[golgi1]

Originally Posted by katzpaw

The European Union President calls Trump a threat - up there with China, ISIS, and Russia.

"Today we are dealing with three threats, which have previously not occurred, at least not on such a scale."

"The first threat, an external one, is related to the new geopolitical situation in the world and around Europe. An increasingly, let us call it, assertive China, especially on the seas, Russia's aggressive policy towards Ukraine and its neighbours, wars, terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam playing a major role, as well as worrying declarations by the new American administration all make our future highly unpredictable.

For the first time in our history, in an increasingly multipolar external world, so many are becoming openly anti-European, or Eurosceptic at best. Particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy."

"We cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the Transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. We should remind our American friends of their own motto:
United we stand, divided we fall"

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/press...4654122_en.pdf

Donald Tusk says Donald Trump poses existential threat to Europe | The Independent

The irony is their proclamation over what constitutes "we", when the EU is unequivocally a non-democratic entity.

[texan2yankee]

Trump is a threat to the EU countries' governments, economically, who have depended on American taxpayers for decades. Trump has said America will no longer subsidize the cost of military protection for other countries in NATO. Why should the EU citizens be subsidized by American taxpayers for their military protection? It is 50 years too long.

I applaud Trump's preliminary stand on NATO and look forward to his full plan on how to handle this unfair financial albatross for American taxpayers.

[Frogburn]

Originally Posted by tinytrump

Trump is pursuing isolationism
This is the most factual thing I do fear and the more ME- MYELF- AND MINE attitudes running the current- there will be war-

If you're Amerindian--which you may not be or else are simply ignorant of history--then it would have been better for Amerindians had the British, French, Spanish, and even the Dutch been more isolationist and kept their a$&es in Europe, except maybe for engaging in legitimate and fair trade.

Under Bill Clinton as President the USA was pretty damn isolationist when the US Government willfully stayed out out Rwanda in Africa and sat back as genocide was carried out, mainly through use of primitive weapons like the machete.

I could intervene as the US Army or a naval force of the British into the problems of the nomadic Apache nation. And it be a one way street. Me demanding the Apache mind their own business, worry about their own problems, and don't get involved in the internal affairs of the United States of America or if I'm British in the early 1700s or 1800s then internal affairs of the Brits.

The most blessed thing the Amerindians received from European Catholics was their lack of isolationism and the spreading of the Christian faith to the Amerindians. Mayan Amerindians living in Mexico today are some of the most hardcore, loyal Catholics in Mexico, and they rejoice at the lack of Catholic isolationism from the Spaniards. And I'm not being sarcastic about that, the modern day Mayan living in Mexico are extremely loyal Catholics, more so than mestizo Mexicans, and they are happy their people were converted to Christianity.




As for Trump he is right, and will be viewed historically so many decades from now, for attempting to de-educate modern day (because Americans of the 1800s age early 1900s had a much different attitude) Americans from the new-Spanish mindset they have been indoctrinated with. During the height of the Spanish empire the Spaninards had an attitude about themselves and the world that was remarkably similar to modern day Americans. The Spaniards viewed themselves as the most Catholic of all people on earth. The greatest of Catholics. Like Americans view themselves as the most Democratic of all people on earth. The greatest of democratic nations. And the Spaniards thought it their responsibility to spread Catholicism across all of planet earth. Just as modern day Americans view it as their responsibility to spread democracy across all of planet earth. The end result in both cases are the propping up of puppet governments as well as militarily caused destruction and maiming. Some times you can pay other nations in. The Spanish empire was the first and possibility only empire to not be born originally through wars, rather through a series of strategic marriages. The US empire was born out of bloodshed, military invasions, or in more recent times they like to (in conjunction with European globalist) use the military alliance of NATO to encroach into territory the West never had political influence in.