Public congratulations but private foreboding as heads of state, ministers and diplomats express hopes for cooperation and peace
to the White House with a powerful mandate to put his policy of “America first” into action once again. But many of the public congratulations could do little to disguise the private foreboding of what the next four years will augur for European security, populism and the world economy.
Orbán, isolated inside the EU, is due to host more than 45 leaders in the European political community in Budapest, which will provide the first opportunity for European leaders to assess the implications for security, including for Ukraine’s war against Russia. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister and another strongman ally of Trump, was also early to send his best wishes. “Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America,” he“on your historic election victory. I look forward to working with you in the years ahead.
In an assessment of Scholz’s failures to back Ukraine fully, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democrat party, warned in a lengthy article: “European foreign and security policy is in a state of disarray.
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