What would happen to Ukraine if Donald Trump currently occupied the Oval Office of the White House? In 2019 he was indicted by the House of Representatives for abuse of power, after temporarily blocking military aid to Kiev. It was therefore he who forced the Ukrainian justice to open an investigation into his future opponent in the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden.
What would have happened to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had he been re-elected in 2020? The Republican’s former national security adviser and now one of his harshest critics, John Bolton, assured in his memoirs that the latter would take advantage of a second term to withdraw the United States from it. True, he had never disguised his contempt for the transatlantic organization even before he came to power. Has former diplomat Richard Haas, who is about to take leave of the leadership of the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington, not qualify his foreign policy as a “doctrine of withdrawal”?
These questions are not rhetorical. Certainly, no card will include Donald Trump’s name in the mid-term elections, which will be held in the United States on November 8. Trumpism, on the other hand, there will be precisely, even in the declination regarding foreign policy: a narrow nationalism, devoid of any moral concern, in which relations with other countries, whatever they may be, are reduced to what they can. lead to Washington, regardless of common values or shared historical ties. A nightmare for Europeans who hoped, with the election of Joe Biden, that a detestable parenthesis was over and for a long time.
Support for NATO
A single sentence, uttered by the possible future speaker (president) of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, was enough for the specter of “America first”, the slogan of Donald Trump, to float over the Ukrainian conflict. . “I think people will end up in a recession and not write Ukraine a blank check.”California’s elected representative assured a political news site in Washington.
“We all want to help [l’Ukraine]. At the same time, you know, we have problems in our country that remain unsolved and we have no idea what the administration’s plan is. Like, what’s the point? Where are we going ? Is our tax money used wisely? “, in October, estimated Scott Perry, the president of the Freedom Caucus that brings together elected officials among the most Trumpist in the House. If Congress moves to the Republican camp on 1is January 2023, will US aid be drastically reduced?
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