NY Times Super Concerned What Europeans Think About Trump After Maduro Capture

These would be the same Europeans who said that Maduro stole the 2024 election and that he was not the legitimate president? Who were just fine with Biden’s $25 million bounty on Maduro (which the Trump admin bumped to $450 million)?

Europe and Rest of World Try to Come to Terms With Trump the Imperialist

It had the makings of one of the most awkward trans-Atlantic meetings in a long time.

European leaders are said to be privately angry and even panicky about President Trump’s new threats to seize Greenland from Denmark, a NATO ally, after his military intervention in Venezuela. But they need the United States to ensure credible security for postwar Ukraine against any further aggression by Russia — a vital strategic interest for Europe

With that backdrop, European leaders met in Paris on Tuesday with senior American negotiators to discuss how to secure a peace settlement in Ukraine. They jointly announced progress on security assurances for a postwar Ukraine, but any cease-fire seems distant, given that Russia is not part of the talks.

Even with those outward displays of European-American unity, underlying everything is Mr. Trump’s sudden return to a more imperialist era. Europeans who consider the American intervention in Venezuela a violation of international law see a U.S. president newly empowered and enthralled by military action, which he compared to watching a television show. He comes across as a largely unpredictable force capable of causing enormous disruption — in NATO, in Ukraine, in Iran, in Gaza — as his eye swings from one imagined prize to another.

Let’s see, which nations has Trump launched a full scale war on? Was it Libya? Syria? How many nations is Trump bombing continuously? Iran was a quick one. So was Venezuela. The idea is that Trump threatens and cajoles. I don’t remember the Times complaining about Obama being an “imperialist”, including when he sent the military into Pakistan without their consent, a nation that was a nominal ally (which, again, I had no problem with). And then there was Biden trying to start WWIII. Anyhow, while the Times and the Europeans are whining

Huh. Too bad they didn’t include Brazil, which has about a half million Venezuelans in refugee status. BTW, I would highly recommend reading this tweet from a Venezuelan.