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THE RETURN TO IMPERIALISM
21-01-2026MAGA: Make America Go Away! Putin and Trump both are driven by revenge and day dreaming of the past. They are not burdened by moral principles but cherish revenge and self admiration; two ingredients for their return to 19th. century imperialism. They resent multilateral cooperation. They reject international law. They dislike democracy. In the case of Trump, the United States must go back to the era before President Wilson's call for making the world safe for democracy. As always in history such dictators are given free room for mischief.
Once united with the United States, Europe was given a chance to unify in peace and respect for law and human rights. The Europeans took too long to unify and missed their unique chance to move the world away from power politics and towards a rule of law. Now Europe is confronted with Russian and American imperialism. Trump grabbing Greenland will be the end of NATO; his self-proclaimed morality will allow Putin to destroy Ukraine.
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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?