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Trump unveils Russia-approved plan to undermine Europe

In an effort to formalise the hostility which has been growing under Donald Trump, America has announced a plan to combat the “current trajectory” of Europe:

 

Yankification

People are taking the above to be a pretty direct attack on the existence of the European Union:

Donald Trump is deep in bed with the tech oligarchs, who all attended his inauguration as guests of honour:

Famously, these hyper nerds hate the EU because they keep introducing legislation to curb the worst excesses of Facebook, Google, and Amazon (while still doing nowhere near enough). This in part explains why America is increasingly hostile towards Europe, but there’s more than that too.

At this point, the US has got about as much as they can out of Europe while still maintaining a veneer of democracy and liberalism. To bleed us dry, they’ll need to perform the shock doctrine on us; i.e. they want far-right authoritarians to take charge so they can syphon off the last of of our public wealth to American conglomerates.

People are asking what links Reform have with Russia, but really the links we need to worry about are their links to the Americans.

Trump means sovereignty

The National Security Strategy also contains the following, suggesting that Reform are taking their direction from the states (reported by the BBC):

In the document, the EU is blamed for blocking US efforts to end the conflict and says that the US must “re-establish strategic stability to Russia” which would “stabilise European economies”.

It appears to endorse efforts to influence policy on the continent, noting that US policy should prioritise “resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations”.

The new report also calls for the restoration of “Western identity”, and claims that Europe will be “unrecognisable in 20 years or less” and its economic issues are “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilisational erasure”.

“It is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies,” the document states.

In stark contrast, the document celebrates the influence of “patriotic European parties” and says “America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit”.

Remember when Farage used to talk about sovereignty?

Remember when he said we need to take back control from unelected foreign elites?

We remember, but somehow we doubt Farage will stand up to the Yanks.

Russia and America VS Europe

In the following tweet, you’ll notice Elon Musk repeats the idea of ‘sovereign nations’ from the National Security Strategy. Musk is being a bit more blatant, giving the game away as to what his friends in the White House are scheming:

Oh, and the guy agreeing with Musk is on the Security Council of Russia, by the way, so it’s a real who’s who of ‘who the fuck asked you?‘

Russia has welcomed the National Security Strategy, saying:

The adjustments we’re seeing… are largely consistent with our vision,

They added:

We consider this a positive step

There’s been a debate between leftists and centrists as to which is worse: American imperialism or Russian imperialism. That debate may be over now, because they’re officially the same thing according to the US government.

Featured image via European Union

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.