Donald Trump is angry at various European nations for not supporting the ongoing military strikes against the Iranian regime. Or not supporting them hard enough. Or something. Or something else.
That the Spanish left-wing government refuses to support Trump is perhaps unsurprising, but even the UK (which is usually subservient to the US even under Labour governments) has tried to wiggle themselves out of the situation.
OK, let´s see...
It´s virtually an official policy of the Trump admin to split the European Union. Trump threatened military action against Denmark (a NATO member-nation) over Greenland. He has imposed tariffs on the EU and its member-nations. He is also trying to appease Russia in Ukraine.
So why exactly should the EU (or the pro-EU government of the UK) support him now? Maybe European alliances also has "interests", rather than "friends", you know. Oh, and as I pointed out in some previous blog post, it´s not as if the European panhandle is unimportant to the "nationalist" United States. Trump apparently needs military bases in Spain and on Cyprus to bomb targets in Iran. Wow, who knew. It´s almost as if a de facto global power needs allies globally or something...
Europe (perhaps minus France?) would probably have supported the strikes against the Iranian regime if the United States had a Democrat or Neo-Con president. Maybe they will, eventually. But as of now, it looks as if Trump may actually be more adventurist than George W Bush!
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