James Crisp and Joe Barnes, European Editor | Correspondent - Daily Telegraph (U.K.)Stephan: Yet further evidence that the nations of the world are geopolitically realigning, as a result of the madness of psychopath criminal Trump, his evil incompetent serviles, and the compliant Republicans in Congress. This is going to have negative effects on the United States that will have profound effects on the stature and status of America, which is no longer going to be the world's leading democracy and leader.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — At an emergency summit of European Union leaders in Brussels, the building blocks of an empire were beginning to take shape.
Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland have exposed Europe’s weakness. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is waging war on its eastern flank. China’s Xi Jinping is a relentless competitor.
In a brutal new age of world powers, the EU wants to build a bigger, richer, stronger “super Europe” that is able to resist the dangerous whims of the globe’s autocrats.
Turning 27 quarrelsome small and middle-sized powers into a geopolitical heavyweight has been Emmanuel Macron’s largely unheeded call ever since the US president’s first term.
This time, though, it is different, multiple Brussels insiders have told The Telegraph.
“Let’s take a step back and realise we live in a world where the leader of the free world is willing to upend the Western alliance over something he sees on Fox News,” one EU diplomat said.
“It is not a cosy place,” Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, said in Davos of a global order [...]Read the Full Article »
