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BETWEEN AGGRESSION AND BETRAYAL
29-10-2026A rather shocking picture of bishops praying over Trump appeared earlier this week on Internet, in the very same week President Trump betrayed his own country, Ukraine, Europe and Pope Leo XIV. His personal envoy named aggressor Vladimir Putin a humanitarian, Trump himself blamed President Zelensky for Putin’s aggression and delayed or abolished American support for Ukraïne, while Putin increased the senseless and devastating bombardments on the people of Ukraine. Russia also escalated cyber-attacks on Europe and made clear again that nothing except full capitulation is negotiable. We Europeans are between aggression and high treason indeed. As far as I can see, Americans must still learn to be dissidents – those bishops on the picture apparently don’t agree. We Europeans so far failed to be healed from our (American) dependency syndrome. We fail to unite and fail to stand for the mission Pope Leo XIV reminded us in his visit to the Robert Schuman Conference Center.
Where is our European Christian heritage and our moral courage?
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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.