Since the Second World War, European integration has been closely linked to the new United Nations, the UN, and many other international organisations. The USA wanted this integration and promoted it, and even said where it should go, since it brought economic and security advantages for the USA. To put it bluntly: the USA was an influential co-creator of European integration. The fact that Donald Trump & Co. deny this does not change the historical facts. But now new facts have emerged. The Trump administration is destroying what took decades to build. There has always been a certain amount of imperialism in US politics, but this policy is now being reduced to pure imperialism. Domestically, the administration is ruling in an almost dictatorial manner by means of decrees, undermining the separation of powers and ignoring court rulings that slow the president down. The Democratic Party is putting up little resistance; one wonders whether they have grasped what is happening.
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Quelle: https://wolfgangschmale.eu/what-now-for-europe-as-global-integration-crumbles/