Take a look at these European and American files.
On December 20, 2024, a criminal, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas group in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed six walkers and injured 299 another.
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Eleven days after, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pick into a colorful group. He killed 15 people and injured more than 35.
Germany’s reproduction price is seldom above 1.4– about common for a shrinking European Union. About 20 percent of the state is now foreign-born, a record high.
National fertility has abruptly decreased to 1,6. The foreign-born now represent 15 % of the American resident population, the highest in both actual numbers ( 50 million ) and percentages in history.
With less than 200 000 troops and a lack of almost all kinds of weapons, the German government is a barrel of its former home.
The U. S. defense, after being humiliated in Afghanistan, is already down some 40, 000-plus volunteers. It faces scarcity of anti-tank arms, artillery shell, ships, and administrative support.
Germany may finally be able to spend 2 % of its GDP on defense, but the US is falling to 3 %, the lowest level in over 80 years since the Great Depression.
Last month, the European market shrank, this time, it will seldom increase, in part because of shortages of cheap fossil fuels.
Germans pay four times as much for energy as Americans do on average. However, the Trump administration has promised a reformation of oil and natural gas, with the intention of adding new refineries and liquid natural gas stations to the mix to increase both manufacturing and exports.
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Overall, the United States is beginning to resemble Europe’s diseases, but regeneration could help stop both from declining over the next four years.
Both experience shrinking and aging communities. Both either cannot or will not command their edges, despite popular demonstrations. Both exhibit woke social accuracy and are retaliation.
The legendary persons of both countries want less waking up, more freedom of expression, and smaller government. They insist on less and legal-only immigration and stable edges.
They voting for cheaper power and fewer restrictions.
Both Europeans and Americans want more democracy and less racial and racial fantasies.
Europe and the United States are also likely to share the exact foes and friends in the panic of the modern 21st century.
Both oppose the asymmetric Chinese strategy for international trade, which is based on a mercantilism that neither Europe nor the US would be able to handle China the same way.
A growing standard and atomic Chinese military is both alarming Europe and the United States.
Iran does not want Iran to create nuclear-capacity missiles with ranges that can strike both countries ‘ capital. They oppose Vladimir Putin’s reunification of the original Soviet Union’s territories.
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Europe, as a rule, loves Democrats as kindred quasi-socialists. However, many Germans personally assume that their own security and prosperity would be better served if America were led by conservatives.
In the past, Europe has not been a fan of Donald Trump, both as leader and as a post- and post-presidency member.
They fear that he is an isolationist, poorly political, never fully supportive of NATO, or to tariff-happy for their tastes– and are scared of his art-of-the-deal trolling to prompt wake-up calls.
But 2025 is definitely not 2017 or even 2020. And more than ever, a “reset” in thinking on both sides is immediately required.
Europe’s unit government did not work with the Biden administration. It really wildly ordered the cancellation of a shared EastMed pipeline between Israel and Cyprus in order to supply desperately needed natural gas to Europe.
It discussed strengthening NATO in a fantastic way. But the group’s shield, the U. S. war, saw its actual funds cut, its Pentagon political, and recruitment little more than 40, 000 enlistees.
The humiliating skedaddle from Afghanistan in 2021 not just weakened the legitimacy of the United States, but it also stifled all European deterrence.
Biden objected to the construction of new liquefied natural gas export terminals in the United States to aid energy-hungry Europe in finding a trustworthy and honest dealer and separating them from Russia.
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Trump, in comparison, promises to “drill, drilling, drill”, in part to ensure needed revenue by exporting huge amounts of LNG to fuel-starved Europe.
Europe was upset that a sarcastic Trump when abused them in order to fulfill their demands to raise their security expenditures. They are glad that some nations did exactly that following the invasion of Ukraine, though.
Europeans possible want– and require– Trump to recover a more disincentive U. S. military, never a woke one.
Both Europe and America are in turmoil, and extreme new ideas are needed.
But, who knows– Europe may quickly slowly rejoice that Biden is gone, Trump is up, and they have a solid, faithful, and rowdy friend rather than a simpering enabler.
