There are several points of view on how the foreign policies of the US during the Trump presidency have affected the state’s relations with the allies. RIA.News suggest that regardless of the outcome of the elections, the hegemony that in the first place has defined the American international relations since the end of the Cold War is now over. Therefore, more and more states, including the European block, are expected to start “revolts” against Washington.
According to the news source, the “intra-elite conflict” of the American government is between “the ambitious realists-Trumpists and hysterical revanchists-visionaries.” Both ideological camps realize that the “golden age” of the American hegemony is long gone, and both yearn to reestablish it. However, neither the attempts to hurt China in any way possible, nor the ambitions to restart the American politics with a Democratic president who sees Europe as an “orphaned ex-colony”, will help. The reason is that not only China and Russia, but Europe as well will not agree to submit to Washington any longer. The plan of Europe now is to become a sort of “quasi-federal great power” led by Paris and Berlin.
Another source argues that the principle “America before anything else” will continue to dominate the American foreign policy, which is more of a reason for Germany to act more actively and assume more responsibility in the international arena. Because Trump considered Germany a political rival in Europe, 69% of the respondents of a poll quoted by the source, believe that Berlin’s politics towards Washington is “too restrained.”
Nobody in Europe dares to predict or actually expects any difference from the outcome of elections. However, they know that the United States has no intention of seeing Europe as an “equal partner”, and regardless of the president, “America will always need slaves, or, ‘damsels in distress’ – under the pretext of rescuing whom Washington can engage in political, cultural and economic rape” (source).
Moscow only hopes that after the elections, “the common sense will win in the US,” by finally agreeing with the Russian proposals on arms controls, as well as realizing that “further implantation of anti-Russian myths” in the first place fuels “the political passions and the atmosphere of mistrust within the American society.”
