Trump treats European allies as a monetary hat

It was not long before, President Joseph R. Biden Junior improves European allies to resist the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He made it clear the point that a better American diplomat, R. Nicholas Burns, Recently The United States also wins global competition for power and prosperity: “Be kind with your allies.”

It is clear that President Trump has a different view. His opponents towards Europe were publicly for decades, as the allies as economic competitors and geopolitical parasites. On Thursday, his decision to impose a controversial tariff on America’s partners, including Ukraine-but not in Russia or North Korea-put his willingness to break an alliance across the Atlantic Ocean that has kept peace in Europe to a large extent for 80 years.

Besides Mr. Trump’s demands that NATO allies spend up to 5 percent of their local product on the army and its expressed desires to seize lands from Denmark, NATO ally, definitions are highlighted by long -term damage to American relations with Europe that are unlikely to be fully repaired.

“The definitions are another addition to the perception and evaluation in Europe that the United States during the era of Donald Trump is not only an unreliable partner, but a partner that cannot be trusted in any way,” said Jontam Wolf, an economist and former director of the German Council for Foreign Relations. “This changes 80 years of post -war history, when the Atlantic alliance was the essence of the Western world and the multilateral world order.”

As far as Brussels tries to maintain some of these main relationships, Mr. Wolf added, “He cannot support itself on its own global order.”

It seems that Mr. Trump’s efforts to convert the global system also benefit Russia, the chief NATO opponent, by weakening the Kremlin opponents in the rest of Europe, despite the drop in oil prices on Friday.

“It seems that there is no matter in this disorder,” Ursula von der Lin saidHead of the European Commission, on Thursday. “There is no clear way through the complexity and chaos that is created as all commercial partners in the United States,” while “the most vulnerable citizens are harmful.”

The Europeans are increasingly aware that Mr. Trump, who has not been updated, and even encourages them more than ideological consultants in his second term, intends to follow his intentions to remove the United States from Europe. “The intensity, speed, aggression and imperialism of this administration was a surprise to some people,” said Mark Leonard, director of the European Council for Foreign Relations.

Many European governments have believed that they could move in the demands of Mr. Trump through transactions, such as buying more weapons and LNG-major American exports-and doing more participating in the burden. The developments of the past weeks show the limits of this approach, including the Trump administration application of definitions to Britain and the European Union and its request for Ukrainian minerals for years of military aid.

Mr. Leonard said: “The challenge facing Europe is how to deal with America predators ready to use the Allied’s weakness to blackmail them, whether it is a metal deal in Ukraine or attempts to include Greenland or the open method that Trump tries to divide Britain from the European Union with differential trade deals.”

Currently, the European Union gathered together, because Mr. Trump applies the same definitions by 20 percent to all 27 member states, including ideological friendly countries such as Hungary, Slovakia and Italy. But Washington may also choose to use a different tariff in certain sectors to pressure an individual state, such as Denmark, on issues such as Greenland.

There is a general assumption that the definitions are an introduction to a deal, as well as the son of Mr. Trump Eric In a message On X. “I don’t want to be the last country trying to negotiate a commercial deal with Realdonaldtrum.” “The first person to negotiate will win – the latter will be lost at all.”

Sofia Beach, a German analyst in Carnegie gifts in Washington, sees two different messages as a basic difference from the Trump administration. She said: “It is not clear whether this is an opening offer to negotiate, or whether they are already reshaping the world, without any interest in reforming it.” “Various people around Trump are following different things.”

Ms. Baysh and others said that definitions and security issues are distinct but barely separate, as Mr. Trump’s willingness to use the American authority brilliantly and even against friends, economies and the poor, who are likely to suffer from inflation and higher consumer taxes.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio tried to be reassured in Brussels last week, at a meeting of NATO ministers abroad, as he was confusing the warning. He condemned “hysteria and excessive excess” in the media and insisted that Mr. Trump supports the coalition and his commitment to collective defense. Mr. Rubio said: “President Trump explained that he supports NATO.” “We will stay in NATO.”

But it is not any NATO.

Mr. Rubio has warned that Mr. Trump expects European allies to bear the main responsibility for their security and Ukraine, as America turns towards Asia. “It is against NATO who does not have the capabilities it needs to fulfill the obligations imposed by the treaty on every member state.”

However, the economic impact of definitions, which is expected to cause inflation and low economic growth, will make it difficult for European allies to increase military spending to 3.5 percent of the GDP targets that NATO taught in his saying in July, not to mention the 5 percent requested by Mr. Trump.

For Germany alone, a rich country, the influence will be great, as the Minister of Finance in Germany Jörg Kukies estimated a 15 percent decrease in German exports to the United States. He says Germany will continue to try to negotiate better conditions with Washington, even with Brussels’ revenge strongly if the bloc is carefully. However, the German Economic Institute estimates the potential costs of these definitions to Germany alone at about 200 billion euros (218 billion dollars) over the next four years.

Maggie Soyetic, economist and research director at the Milkin Institute, said that Europeans will now search for other markets and more free trade deals, such as those with Canada and Mexico. She said: “There is still room for cooperation with American and American companies, as we think about how to move in this new situation and the new American theory.”

But for Moscow, which only does a little trade -off trade with the United States, the tariff kick for American allies was another gift. Former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev Crush happily On x about the damage that happened.

He said that Russia “would have been sitting next to the river, waiting for the enemy’s body.