You might think the Trump administration had enough on its plate. A failing war against Iran, punitive prices at the petrol pump and a stock market in bubble territory. Yet, the administration still found time to weigh in on the tragic killing of Henry Nowak in the UK.
The Department of State saw the murder as a symptom of “civilisational decline”. JD Vance blamed “the last few generations of European elites” for permitting “the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West”, while Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s Secretary of War, struck a similar note when he contrasted the earlier resistance to fascism with the current failure to resist “different dangerous ideologies” brought by illegal immigrants.
Commentators in Europe seem at a loss to explain why the Trump administration fixates on European migration levels. “Mind your own business” is a common response on British social media.
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Unfortunately, the Trump administration has decided that Europe’s “civilisational decline” is very much America’s business. A US government that jealously defends its own national sovereignty feels no compunction about interfering in the sovereignty of others. And we can expect many more finger-pointing interventions from Vance and Trump’s Maga crowd going forward.
