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POWER, PROFIT, REVENGE
01-03-2025Something has gone very wrong in America, when its President and Vice-President carefully prepare and broadcast a TV show in the very oval office of the White House in which they publicly humiliate the Jewish President of Ukraine for defending his country against unprovoked aggression. The whole world could watch it.
Motives?
On assuming office, Donald Trump had made quite clear that his primary purpose is to take revenge against everyone and everything connected with the Biden Administration and in a wider sense with American policy since the end of the First World War. In Vladimir Putin he found his ally in revenge. Putin announced and began revenge against the "geopolitcal catastrophy of the collapse" of the Soviet Union in 2000. Making peace by Putin and Trump together - without Ukraine and Europe - is bound to look like the Yalta agreement of 1945 by which Europe was divided into two spheres of influence and repression; peace did not come until 1990.
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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?