He Donald Trump’s disdain and other members of his government in Europe It has been evidenced in the first two months of the second presidency of the Republican, when he and Vice President JD Vance and other members of the Cabinet have redoubled their attacks for what they denounce as unfair commercial treatment o by defense expense and have cornering to the allies of the old continent in the negotiations with Russia by the war in Ukraine. The filtration on Monday of the Chat of Signal about the military attack on the hutis in Yemen in which the director of ‘The Atlantic’ was included a step further and has served to underline that the contempt for Europe is even deeper of what is already expressed in public.
According to the information of Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in Trump’s Washington, the Vision of a parasitic Europe that “takes advantage” of the US. And in no one is more evident than in vice president Vance, who showed in the conversation his commitment to be delayed the attack on Yemen for considering that Military operation would help Europeans more than Americanssince 40% of European trade travels through the Suez channel compared to 3% of US trade.
“Simply I hate rescuing Europeans again “, He wrote in the Signal Vance group, which by showing his opposition to the attack also tacitly assumed a divergence of opinion with Trump. “I am not sure that the president is aware of what inconsistent that this is with your message to Europe right now “wrote the vice president, who has been exercising as Trump’s dog. In February he offered a incendiary and insulting speech against Europe at the Munich Security Conference, where he questioned the situation of current European values and the state of democracy, criticisms that he has continued to redouble.
Vance, in any case, is not alone. In a later message in the chat, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, replied to the vice president: “I completely share the disgust by the European sparrow. It is pathetic“He wrote using capital letters to emphasize.
Someone identified in the chat as SM, which Goldberg believes that he is Trump’s advisor Stephen MillerHe suggested that both Europe and Egypt should compensate for the US for the operation against the Hutis. “If the US successfully restores the freedom of navigation at high cost There must be some economic gain obtained in return “wrote.
Also Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Advisor, who invited Goldberg to the Signal Group, defended the need for the US to carry out the attack but showed his agreement that the government should try to “collect the associated costs (with the military operation) and charge them to the Europeans.”
A relationship touched
Although in public the response of European leaders has been for the moment contained, there have been voices that have denounced the insults and implications of the messages of the Signal Group. In an X message, for example, the former United Kingdom Defense Minister Grant Shapps He recalled that he personally authorized attacks on the hutis and that the British Navy has defended maritime traffic in the Red Sea. “Our forces risked their lives to protect trade. Some in DC need the reminder“He has written.
“It is clear that The transatlantic relationship as it was known has ended andat best, there is a indifferent disdain“He told ‘The New York Times’ Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute of International Affairs of Italy.” In the worst case, there is a active attempt to undermine Europe“.
