Trump and his administration have been
especially hateful of the EU with respect to Brexit, and their impudent
encouragement of the UK to leave the Union, and on top of that to even
do so without a Brexit deal, the so called hard or no-deal Brexit.
The latest of the Trump Administration’s EU bashing came this week
from Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton who advertised a
no-deal Brexit with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the British
public with the prospects of a fast US-UK trade deal.
Bolton,
however, also shyly admitted that such a deal wouldn’t probably take
the form of a comprehensive all-out agreement but would likely be
negotiated “in pieces” and stages.
Critics have reacted that to get even that, the UK would have to give the Trump Administration a lot of concessions and backing on all sorts of top-level global political issues.
Diplomatic tone and manners aside, it
has got to be pointed out categorically that downgrading, diminishing,
or even destroying the EU does not make sense from the point of view of
America’s best interests. This is so self-explanatory that there is no
need go into much detail here. It suffices to remind everybody that the
West rests on two pillars – North America and (Western) Europe – the USA
and the EU, respectively. And if one of those two pillars sabotages or
undermines the other, that could lead to the collapse of the entire
structure.
The fact that Brexit could
actually prove a blessing, rather than a curse to the EU but
effectively removing the countless British vetoes to the deepening and
widening of EU integration is a whole other story.
Trump
first seriously raised eyebrows on the other side of the Atlantic with
his campaign speeches, and his first post-inauguration interview in
January 2017, in which he openly bashed the European Union.
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