
Between alliance and dependency
The United States’ allies face a state of uncertainty and confusion in how to manage relations with the United States and its President Trump, who seeks a fundamental change in American policies, and it establishes the principle of “America first”, and the Alawite of the pure economic interest and the superfluous logic, in a way that undermines the “common values” that The partnerships or alliances that arose in the post -World War II were built in the context of the “global liberal system”, as indicates an analysis of the Bloomberg website (January 21).
In addition to the direct threat of annexation, which included Canada and the Greenland Island of Denmark, a member of the NATO (NATO), and the re -purchase of or seizure of the Panama channel, Trump exerts pressure on Europe, which is all over the threat of imposing high commercial fees and obligating the purchase of American goods, including oil and gas, And the threat to withdraw from the treaties and agreements that have long linked the two allies.
In a speech addressed to the participants in the Davos Economic Conference, Trump did not differentiate between his allies and opponents, raising the slogan “they produced in America or paid customs duties.” He also asked NATO countries – in a reference to the Europeans in particular – to increase defense spending to 5% of the local product The total (compared to 2% currently), otherwise the American security umbrella will be reviewed.
With all the statements made by, as well as his billionaire consultant Illon Musk, Europe fears Trump’s bounced on the system of firm relations between it and the United States for decades, and its evacuation of the obligations and historical frameworks of it, such as NATO in the context of the policy of retreat and its struggle with opponents such as China and Russia.
European analysts believe that Trump was more explicit in his directions, but Washington has always been behaving background as it saved Europe from itself during the Second World War, and then rebuilt and formed (Western Europe) through the Marshall project since 1948 (its costs were estimated at about 13 billion dollars), She provided her with an umbrella of security and military protection during the Cold War (and we saw us during the Russian war on Ukraine), and also inherited its exhausted major empires (Britain and France), and became a leader of what was known as “free year”.
When the international conflict in the era of the Cold War was formed on ideological foundations and Washington was leading the global liberal regime, in exchange for the leadership of the Soviet Union of the Communist camp, the United States needed the European field to protect itself and its interests first, and its military and political needs and to defend the values that it represented.
In some way, Western Europe remained in the subordinate field, just as the Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union was at the height of the struggle between two camps and two models, and the attempts of French leader Charles de Gaulle (1959-1969) did not succeed in the American umbrella and his country’s secession from NATO military leadership in 1966, which is He saw “an organization that is subject to Europe to the Americans.”
Despite Europe’s endeavor to build and expand it and the end of the Cold War with the fall of the Soviet Union, it remained practically under the American military and political umbrella, and the war between Russia and Ukraine was a difficult test for its unity despite the American support, and as a result it witnessed a decline in its position and a deterioration of its economic conditions and divisions between its members and up to the right -wing and popular currents against the European Union Himself, whose state has failed to achieve security and strategic independence from Washington.
In practice, European economies, especially the German economy, live, which is the locomotive of the European economy, is a difficult situation due to the huge costs that it incurred in exchange for its support to Ukraine or due to the high prices of gas after the stopping of Russian gas, and given the continuous European drawing behind American policies – including its wars and economic sanctions on the countries – which is it This causes significant losses to Europe, in exchange for American gains.
In this context, analysts believe that Trump only behaves according to what the strategic interest of the United States sees, without regard to the intellectual, ideological or historical regulatory references that united the Western camp, and he has confirmed more than once that his country cannot continue to protect European security and prosperity without benefit or benefit an interest.
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