NEWS
ILLIBERATION DAY
03-04-2025President Trump proclained April 2 Liberation Day. Of course as my title indicates, for most Americans and also for us Europeans, the opposite is true. The American people are the first ones to suffer from high import tarifs. National selfsufficiency is a backward dream. What made America great were its open borders and its many immigrants who enriched culture and elevated universities to the best ones in the world. The Trump Administration in its second term doe not understand. Trump 2 is driven by revenge and vanity.
He takes revenge not only against Biden, but against the United States as it evolved since Woodrow Wilson's idea of making the world safe for democracy. What made America great since 1917 and 1945, is exactly: to be part and leader of an alliance of democracies, by example, assistance and cooperation. Trump's MAGA does exactly the opposite as one can follow when reading his tsunami of Executive Orders and lhe Oligarchs he conspires with., the worst one Elon Musk.
Revenge and vanity are poor councillors. Dismissing competent federal workers by loyal nobodies is self-defeating and paves the way to dictatorship.
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- The Illusions of Détente,
- Western Cooperation
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- De geest van Christus leeft in Europa
- Neither Justice nor Order
Western Cooperation
Footprints of the 20th Century - Third EditionDescription
For the study of international relations, knowledge of the history of Western Cooperation in the Twentieth Century is essential. The third volume reviews the broader history from America’s entry in the First World War in 1917 and the start of the American Era in international relations one hundred years ago, to the inauguration of President Trump in 2017.