David Pakman

Not it should be preparing to manage Trump.

Not Europe needs to know how to work around Trump, but simply distance from the United States altogether.

Now, I know that a lot of the magas love to go.

We don't give a shit what Europe thinks.

These sissy Europeans with their espresso and but that we don't care.

OK, well, listen, most of the world does care.

And the fact that this is what is now openly being argued should really get your attention.

Now, the argument is very simple and it's a devastating argument.

Europe is watching Trump flirt with authoritarianism, territorial conquest, including Greenland and other places, and watching Trump's open contempt for Democratic norms.

And they are rightly asking, is the United States still a reliable Democratic partner at all?

It's not a theoretical question.

It's right now under Trump.

Is the United States a reliable Democratic partner?

Trump has not only talked about taking Greenland one way or another, he has sent a military into Venezuela and kidnapped the president there with no authorization.

Trump's allies are openly hostile to liberal democracy, to international institutions.

We don't know.

If Trump would actually allow the United States to meet its requirements under NATO shared defense, if another NATO nation were to be attacked, he's kind of been like, yeah, maybe some of them got to pay more, though.

I'm not really sure.

And so there is a post-World War two order that kept Europe relatively stable for decades, which now Trump has completely reversed.

And it's the trade wars.