I'm not sure this says anything shocking but I thought it was a good summary of the state of European affairs starting this year for this American at least!
Seven of the European Union’s 27 member states are now governed fully or in part by extreme parties. More might follow as frustration mounts, especially among 20-something voters, at governments’ failure to limit immigration and promote jobs, housing and better living standards.
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Not since the Cold War has Europe faced such a menacing security environment. Alarm bells are ringing nearly everywhere — not only because of Moscow’s intensifying hybrid war of sabotage, propaganda and election interference across the continent, but also because Washington’s postwar promise of protection looks flimsier than ever as Trump prepares to return to the White House.
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The risk for Europe is not only that it will be left in the geopolitical dust, an also-ran against the U.S. and Chinese titans. It is also that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, building a full-time war economy to sustain his imperial appetites, will see in the continent’s impotence the potential for vassal states, ripe for the taking.
I'm not sure this says anything shocking but I thought it was a good summary of the state of European affairs starting this year for this American at least!
I'm not sure this says anything shocking but I thought it was a good summary of the state of European affairs starting this year for this American at least!