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Wen

When even a hawkish commentator from a right wing paper can be encouraged to publish this you know the writing is one the wall for the ‘special’ relationship.

‘If we are forced to confront Trump on an existential question — perhaps on Canada’s survival — what happens if he calls our bluff? If we don’t, we are no more than Airstrip One. ‘

archive.today/2025.03.12-17451 (archived)

R screenshot from the article - text reads ‘From a tomb in the provincial village of Colombey-les-deux- Eglises, a subterranean chuckle is audible around Europe. As 80 years of transatlantic trust evaporate in eight short weeks, the late French leader Charles de Gaulle's undying scepticism of the United States is being dramatically vindicated. Lifelong Atlanticists in Britain, Germany and other countries now sound Corbynite in their disdain for the hegemon's bullying, greedy and capricious behaviour. Timothy Garton Ash, the Oxford University historian, headlined his recent newsletter "America the Horrible". In a scathing speech in the House of Lords, Andrew Roberts, a historian (and Churchill biographer) revered in American conservative circles, said the "sheer brutality" of the Trump administration's behaviour had thrust Britain into "totally uncharted territory". Friedrich Merz, an apostle of his country's "Westbindung" transatlanticism as lodestar now says his priority as Germany's next chancellor is to "achieve independence from the US" Denmark, an even closer US ally, is reeling from Trump's Greenland gambit. "We have all turned into Gaullists," says Caspar Veldkamp, the Dutch foreign minister.
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@Wen Interesting that Charles de Gaulle, not always respected General & Leader, could read the hubristic complacency in the US psyche so well.
Feed a bully and create a monster.

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@Wen What this reminds me of is the inability of old communists unable to process the invasion of Hungary. ‘No, just you wait, it’s temporary, it’ll go back soon’ etc.

Ditto the surprise, as though the writing had not been on the wall for decades.

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