How should Latvia evaluate the return of Trump / Diena

This led to many comments and accusations of sympathy for ultra-liberals and dislike for conservative values, on which the Trump wave is returning to the White House. In Latvia, many who, like the majority of Americans who voted, were against a misguided immigration policy, exaggerating the liberal ideas and various “courses”, from gender neutrality to green , seeing Trump’s victory as a show of contempt for the presidency. of this ideology in traditional media and government policy.

If it was 2016, when Trump moved into the White House for the first time, or the time before the annexation of Crimea, that the active phase of Putin‘s plan to end the empire began bring back, such a show of contempt for the domestic liberals and watching. at what is happening to Latvia’s security guarantor, the United States, a key member of NATO would be understood as something that is just short. Now, since the Russian attack on Ukraine has been going on for almost three years, we in Latvia cannot afford such a narrow view, because the issue of international security is crucial for us, for whom Trump has Washington, at least judging from what has been expressed. , identified and guaranteed within the campaign, is going to be reversed.

This light-hearted reactionary view of the change of power taking place in Washington, which also includes a change of course in security policy that is truly dangerous for our country’s existence, best characterized by the reflections of the brilliant director Alvjas Hermanis. Facebook: “It won’t get worse. You have to take risks and hope for the best.” Russian roulette and the guns that tend to fire at the end of the show color the theater, but not politics, especially when it comes to the only country in the world that can and has so far been influenced by Russia balance, which, I say again, is extremely important for the existence of Latvia. On the other hand, Trump returns to power with full unpredictability and risks, which, contrary to Herman’s expectations, could end unfortunately with a situation where it is worse than it was. Therefore, the only prism through which we can measure Trump’s danger to the vital interests of Latvia in the near future is how he and his frenzied intellectuals (we wait for the crystallization of real candidates for key positions in the government) are going to achieve, but most importantly – how they will realize their promise to achieve peace in Ukraine within 24 hours.