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14-12-2025This document published in November 25 must be studied carefully and dispationately. It is important to understand the thinking and approach of Donald Trump.
The Document is self-congratulating and revengefull. It rejects the post-Second World Order - largely shaped by his predecessors. This rejection, nevertheless, is understandable, as it in fact disappeared with Putin's aggression against Ukraine and Europe.
His own "new" strategy consists of two main chapters: (1) make peace through deal-making and economic growth, and (2) restore full national sovereignty. The first one most likely is an illusion: self-enrichment ( the dominance of economc values) never proved to be peace-full. The restoration of full national sovereignty in the case of the U.S. means American imperialism: power without principle (e.g. the revival of the Monroe doctrine)'.
"Promoting European Greatness" clearly is part of his new strategy. What the Document writes on Europe's deeper problems should not be rejected or ridiculed, at least on one crucial item: the European Union failed to become a true federation capable of being united in foreign policy and defence; the European Defence Community was rejected as early as in 1954, in the name of the national security policy of the French Republic. Ever since, European Unification got stuck in the regulatory suffocation of the so-called internal market. Hence EU's inability to truly deal with the problems of aggresion and war, despite its achievement as a peace-maker among the member-states.
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European Unification into the Twenty First Century
Footprints of the 20th Century - Third EditionDescription
The story of European Unification is fascinating. In 1950, two sworn enemies – France and Germany – decide to seek reconciliation and European federal unity. As a first step, they created the European Coal and Steel Community together with Italy and the Benelux countries. The fathers of this new Europe were visionary persons. Does today`s student or scholar still know who Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, Alcide de Gasperi or Willem Beyen were and what they stood for?