Majority of western Europeans think Trump is threat to peace, survey finds
Majority of western Europeans think Trump is threat to peace, survey finds
Most respondents in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and UK also say Kyiv’s exclusion from peace talks is unacceptable
Summary
A YouGov poll in five Western European countries found majorities view Donald Trump as a threat to European peace, with concerns rising after he suspended military aid to Ukraine.
Most respondents oppose Kyiv’s exclusion from U.S.-Russia peace talks and doubt Europe alone could support Ukraine.
Support for increased defense spending remains limited, despite fears that Russia could attack again.
Proposals for European peacekeepers in Ukraine have mixed support. The survey highlights growing skepticism about U.S. commitments to NATO and European security.
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Many europeans always have thought about USA as a threat to peace. The migrants crisis in europe is a direct result of USA fucking up the middle east for decades.
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And now we have far-right ultranationalistic movements popping up through Europe as a result.
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And we fuck up other places to, lets not sell the US short.
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AMERICA!!!! FUCK YEAA!!!
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I might have to watch that again.
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My British Dad, circa 1988: "America's a strange place, they usually do the right thing, but they're a bit nuts... they love guns."
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Most if us un the US too, probably.
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Both supporters and opponents.
The supporters want violence. Us opponents see that he is pushing for it.
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I wish, but if that were the case he wouldn't be in office.
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Majority of western Europeans are paying attention, survey finds
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Objectively he is.
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A minority of western Europeans are idiots.
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If it was only peace lol.
He's a threat the very survival of the specie.
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Yet support for increased defense spending is limited. I guess there may be a change in attitudes once the Americans enact tarrifs against the EU and/or formally leave NATO.
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Most countries have announced increased defense spending with support across the political spectrum and EU defense stocks are one of the few safe havens left during this tariff nonsense. France has offered a nuclear umbrella to its neighbours. Poland is up to 5% GDP on defence. Not sure what you mean by limited support but maybe I misunderstand.
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I was referring to the survey results.
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They don't even have to leave NATO formally, just undermine confidence in article 5 enough that it's no longer a deterrent.
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That is because in countries like The Netherlands, 100 square meters will cost you about €500 000 at the moment. Warming my house on natural gas costs me €10 a day. In the grocery store, the avarage item price is now €3,-. We must have health insurance (good thing!) but if you can't afford it, you have the option to gamble on higher "own risk". That means paying more out of your own pocket. Gasoline is €2 a liter. We also have to reduce CO2 but don't have enough capacity on the grid to support all the green initiatives. Meaning electricity prices go up. Immigrants fleeing from terrible conditions are very welcome here (also, good thing!), but they need to be paid for somehow. Life is expensive and spending more on military means higher taxes or worse services.
Personally I don't have it bad at all and most people still don't, but I can understand why some people see this as a hard pill to swallow.
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If US commitment to the NATO nuclear umbrella is questioned, Russia will attempt to capitalize on it.
Threats of nuclear action are considerably more believable when there's no threat of nuclear retaliation. Ukraine would never have been invaded if they still had nuclear weapons.
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Read that as: Majority of Western Europeans suspect ocean of containing water.
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I think at this point for majority of the world, this is common sense now.
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You're right damn this is just hitting me. This chain of events has enabled china to take over much of the Pacific islands and other nations they 'claim' are theirs by historical right. The russians will come for the European continent and the usa will make majorly predatory moves on the American continents. Fuck, the entire world has been made unsafe.
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Let us know when the eggs fall in price. Then we'll know it was all worth it. Cheers.
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Doesn’t the majority of everyone everywhere think this by now?
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Only western Europeans? I would think eastern Europeans are even more terrified of the implications of Trump being an obvious FSB asset.
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They only asked Western Europeans.
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"The great peacemaker" needs big wars so that he can eventually "make" a peace...
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No shit Sherlock
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At this point that's like saying the meteor was a "threat" to dinosaurs
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We’ve been saying this in the U.S. since 2016.
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Is that the same 'we' that voted him in again?
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Breaking news, really. The dude who threatens to invade his allies is a threat to peace, bravo! If we keep up this pace with dealing with the situation, then we are doomed.
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If the western world turns fully towards darkness as it has before during the world wars, the European ideals will get crushed quickly by superpowers on both sides. I cant see Europe being able to defend itself for long if USA goes fully satanic.
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The western world does not need to turn into darkness. It never left it.
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You won't have to worry about Trump for long. We abstained in the election and let Trump win, and now the Democrats understand that genocide is wrong and they're working tirelessly to stop Trump. You're welcome.
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..and to think that a significant (but probably not primary) reason why Trump is punishing Ukraine is because he wants to oversee a peace treaty regardless of the circumstances, all so that he can earn a Nobel Peace Prize like Obama.
Yes, the man is that shallow and vain.
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Most respondents oppose Kyiv’s exclusion from U.S.-Russia peace talks and doubt Europe alone could support Ukraine
I mean not only did Kyiv host peace talks that excluded Russia (thus came to nothing), but Zelenskyy outlawed talks with Putin so why is he complaining?
And yeah, Europe can’t defend Ukraine alone. The UK for example already sent basically their entire SPG fleet to Ukraine. 7 months ago, Poland had sent basically half of their SPGs to Ukraine. NATO‘s artillery fleet outside of the US is already gutted despite not being at war. France only have enough ammunition to last a few weeks in a bitter fight against Russia per France’s own calculations.
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Russia has broken every treaty they have signed with Ukraine, why even bother after 20+ times?
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I mean not really but Russia did violate some agreements but so did Ukraine.
Budapest Memorandum was made null and void when the US sanctioned Belarus which is explicitly prohibited in the agreement.
One can argue that Russian actions in 2014 violated the 1997 treaty on friendship.
Minsk II was made null and void after Ukraine not only refused to implement them but created laws that violated the spirit of the agreement and this is more or less the main reason 2022 invasion happened.
All the treaties except for the Minsk Agreements were basically made null and void following the 2014 coup.
Minsk I was violated by Russia almost immediately after it was made.
2003 treaty on Russian-Ukrainian border really only gave “legal basis for initiating the process of marking the Russia–Ukraine state border on the ground.”
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