An alliance that became enmity: how US has moved away from Europe

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Not only have they been ignored in the negotiations that, on their own, began Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin to resolve the war in Ukraine, a conflict on which the future of Europe depends and that will change the global geopolitical board, but have told them without anesthesia that they do not know how to manage, which are weak and that, on top of that, are antidemocratic. A direct blow to the heart and pride of European values.

After what happened in the last two weeks, the alliance of the Western powers that was based after World War II would seem to fade, or actually, reconfigure towards a new world order.

Since Trump returned to the White Hol ‘Desplesstinizar’ Gaza to turn it into a summer resort in the Middle East, in addition to its expansionist efforts to control Greenland and the Panama Canal, just to name a few.

But there was a great pending issue: the war in Ukraine, a conflict without a solution for almost three years and continues in a desperate stagnation period.

“It is not just an attack on the European Union (EU) but to the liberal international order built after 1945. We are entering a new era where there are no red lines and where all the roads that had been built internationally to resolve Conflicts through multilateralism has jumped through the air, ”says Steven Forti, professor of contemporary history at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. “For the Trump administration, the EU is now an adversary,” he adds.

Trump’s call to Putin came with a series of blunt messages to the European Union. Pete Hegesh, the new Secretary of Defense, was two weeks ago in Brussels, at an NATO meeting, and pointed out that the adhesion of Ukraine to the Atlantic Alliance was “unrealistic” as well as the recovery of the territory that has lost to Russia and that military security of Ukraine must depend on Europeans.

Days later, Vice President JD Vance gave Munich a challenging speech and told European leaders to of extreme right that are increasingly popular in the continent.

This was followed by the meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, among American and Russian officials and where there was no chair for Europe or Ukraine, the directo interested.

In order not to be so outlined, French president Emmanuel Macron summoned a meeting in Paris with the leaders of 11 European countries, which included Germany, Spain and Italy (Meloni was reluctantly because the affinity he has with Trump and the little chemistry that has Macron) to discuss the steps to follow. But from the meeting no agreement came out but the divisions in the continent on the militarization and deployment of troops emerged. Macron has advocated for years for a purely European army to stop depending on the United States, but the EU is a block of various speeds and interests [con diferentes economías y una megaburocracia]and such delicate issues cannot be resolved at ‘Trump speed’.

“In Europe there is now a lack of leadership. The only leader who glimpses is Macron, but has several problems within his country. And German Chancellor Scholz has not given the size after the departure of Angela Merkel, ”explains Francesco Tucci, internationalist and teacher of the UPC and the PUCP.

Ideological alignment

But what has happened these weeks does not necessarily show that the United States is no longer interested in Europe. What he no longer wants is to coordinate with progressive governments, and rather encourage the extreme right parties, such as AFD in Germany or national grouping in France. Therefore, Vance’s comments also came when speaking specifically of the German elections this Sunday, an issue that was qualified as “unacceptable interference” by Olaf Scholz.

Without a doubt, it is a tinder on the world stage. “The relationship is not broken, but it is broken. And this is very influenced by the thought of extreme right in Europe and the US The approach, ”explains the journalist Ramiro Escobar, international analyst and professor at the PUCP.

As Farah Stockman, columnist of “The New York Times”, points out, “the Trump administration is promoting non -liberal and pro -raging political parties throughout Europe that could undermine the European project from within.”

Forti goes in the same line: “They seek to weaken the European project. What the EU has to do is firmly to be signed by the destruction of the rules of the game. As repeated by the former president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, European institutions have to do something quickly, because the risk is that the EU will become irrelevant. ”

The Italian researcher adds that the community block has to take steps for greater political integration. “You cannot make all decisions unanimously, they have to know how to build a long -term strategy to obtain strategic autonomy in a world that is changing, where multilateralism has weakened. The EU must have its own strategies in the field of industry, new technologies, artificial intelligence. It is a huge challenge. ”

A new world order

The communications of the European Commission – the executive body of the EU – and its president, Ursula von der Leyen, do not cease to repeat that “there cannot be a solution for Ukraine without the involvement of Ukraine or EU, because security of Ukraine is the security of the European Union. ”

But Trump has another idea. The US president wants to be remembered as the president who ended with a war that seemed to be brought and, above all, wants to pass the Ukraine page leaving the Europeans in charge of their own security to be able to focus on their true obsession: China.