Adam Tooze: ‘The US exhibits the logic of a serial abuser. Europe has to say no’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/adam-tooze-the-us-exhibits-the-logic-of-a-serial-abuser-europe-has-to-say-no.html
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Adam Tooze: ‘The US exhibits the logic of a serial abuser. Europe has to say no’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/adam-tooze-the-us-exhibits-the-logic-of-a-serial-abuser-europe-has-to-say-no.html
Posted by nimicdoareu
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That is the behavior to expect when the President of that country is exactly that.
The good thing is that Europe has started to say no. Enough is enough.
Very useful. Observing Trump as a mysoginistic builly explains more of his behaviour then calling him a fascist.
Lmao nice try now get down in your knees
Can’t really blame you guys for realizing that we’re never more than 4 years away from electing some complete fucking moron.
I wish the EU have the same energy for Russia. European Union continues to buy Russian oil. As a matter of fact they bought the most last month. You can fact check that
To be honest, I didn’t fully grasp everything the historian was trying to say, except for a few points:
– Europe was willing to keep putting up with things, but the threat of Greenland’s annexation turned out to be the red line that showed enough was enough.
– You can’t call Trump’s actions fascism; it’s more like machismo.
The rest just seemed like fluff and wordplay.
I think the article (link below) paints a much clearer picture of both what’s happening in Europe and the fact that it’s not just a Trump effect, but a long‑simmering societal crisis.
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1qzkmmd/the_biggest_threat_facing_europe_is_not_a_trump/
The relationship will naturally distangle, as one of the two american parties explicitely has proclaimed that Europe is a rival if not an outright ennemy – save of course of a far-right takeover by the MAGA subsidiaries
> Then there’s Stephen Miller [the ultra-conservative domestic policy advisor to the U.S. president] at the core of the administration, one of several different strands in the Trump cocktail, only one, but an important one. And he would fit very nicely in a Franco regime or a Salazar regime. I don’t know whether he’s really got the chops for a black shirt or a brown shirt, but an authoritarian, he clearly is.
What was that saying, history repeats, first time as a tragedy, second as a farce?