The U.S. is even looking to Ukraine to help its operations against Iran — as Trump rages at Starmer and Sánchez for refusing to back his war.
Donald Trump’s German grandparents may have known the word for what some European officials now feel, as they watch him complain that America’s traditional allies have let him down: Schadenfreude.
Having spent a year criticizing, insulting and threatening European leaders, Trump now sees the value of having friends in strategically important places — if they have military assets he can use, anyway.
The hardening position of European leaders on Iran marks a watershed moment, just as U.S. President George W. Bush’s doomed and divisive invasion of Iraq in 2003 undermined transatlantic trust for years. The tensions over such a consequential new conflict in the Middle East may even prove existential for the Western alliance, after 12 months that had already strained U.S.-European relations to the breaking point.
I’m German and I get where you’re coming from. His grandparents generation was guilty af.
Keep in mind that Trump is so old that his grandparents would’ve been from a generation or two before the Nazis. (A quick web search says that his grandfather was born in 1869 and died in 1918, for example.) Is the German Empire what you were intending to criticize?
You mean the super conservative, etho-nationalist German Empire that also conducted the Herero and Nama genocide, keeping the survivors in concentration camps to use for slave labor and torturous race related medial experiments?
Hitler didn’t convince the Nazi generation to suddenly be Nazis with his compelling oratory. He latched onto a deep rot which had already been present in that society for a long time.
Sounds a little familiar for some reason.
Something something make Germany great again.
Not one of Hitler’s campaign slogans, but the phrase was featured in several speeches. It’s not clear to me whether Trump was ripping off Hitler or Reagan. And it’s neither here nor there but maybe Reagan was ripping off Hitler; idk and idc, he’s dead now and was an absolute monster either way.
Yes. A lot of people fled the German Empire, it was nearly as bad as the Nazis. But the OP’s criticism applies to some people that stayed without ever getting any punishment. The people that fled were the victims.
Thanks for getting it.