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Between two Autocrats

18-02-2025

In my inaugural adress  in 1985 at Leiden University, my theme was: Between Two or Against One ? At the time the answer was still clear. It is different today in Donald Trump's second term as U.S. President. What he announced to do, is clearly being done. Not in foreign policy only but much more dangerously in  turning the American democracy into a new U.S autocracy.For us Europeans indeed a new and most dangerous change.The answer to my own question today is: between two autocracies. What the two autocrats Putin and Trump are up to is expansion of power and territory: Ukraine, Moldavia, Poland and the Baltic democracies on Putin's side and the Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Greenland and the Panama canal on the other,, Trumps side. The two autoccrats understand each other, but with little or no interest in peace and world order. Europe is in serious danger.




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Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau

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