Europe needs to learn to start telling Trump (and the USA at large) to fuck off and just do things.
They don’t need Baby Trump’s support to seize Russian assets in Europe and redirect them toward Ukraine. Given that Trump is doing everything in his power to undermine that effort, waiting for him is a sucker’s game.
Seize the assets.
Fund Ukraine.
Start the process of divesting all American-sourced military kit in favour of European so that the USA has no more leverage.
Oh, and stop trading with the USA until it grows the fuck up.
At this point, there’s really no other way to interpret his actions. He’s totally compromised.
For now. He’s easily influenced, so he’ll be compromised by something else very soon. Then go back to Russia, then something else, then back to Russia.
Really, it’s whoever could use him in the moment is who he’s compromised too.
Why listen to a Russian asset? The U.S got played even worse than the U.K
The most important lesson I think European countries can learn from this is that promoting national exceptionalism makes your population vulnerable.
Don’t worry, the dementia will kick in, he’ll forget next day.
