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What is Donald Trump’s foreign end policy? This question has not been asked enough since the shock of Vice President JD Vance to Munich.

It is clear that Trump and his hatred want to bury the international system based on the rules and restore the great power competition. They seem to prefer a world divided into areas of influence under a handful of large countries run by strong men.

But even if (especially if) this is their goal, then why do they want to push Europe to a Russian sphere of influence? Because this is the clear result of withdrawing American protection or helping MAGA rewards in Europe to power. The abandoned Europe will also see a lesser reason for gathering behind an aggressive American approach with China. If Trump’s view of the world is tending to how to divide the mobs into the city into gang lands, then how can it make sense to evacuate the most profitable and powerful lands there outside the home grass?

Often the infiltrators swing, so take what they say about others as an indicator of what they think about themselves. This has been true for a long time for Trump, and he also goes to Vans’s speech. His most shocking line – “the threat that worries more” is not Russia or China, but “the threat from inside” – it is better to read as defining the strongest opponent not in Europe, but the goals of the Trump system.

Russia and China, after all, may be the geopolitical forces that the United States needs to reach. But they do not pose any challenge, not to mention an alternative model, what Maga World Trump and Vance said, especially within the United States itself. On the contrary, the European Union and Europe on a larger scale, if it can survive, has the ability to put resistance to what is interesting to Maga America and its large technical diocese.

It is recognized that he does not match the United States militarily, not even able to secure its defense without American assistance – until now. But even this changes, as Elizabeth Brao recently Indicate Regarding the relative self -sufficiency of the North Europe joint force in the Baltic Sea. Trump may find responsibility for his security makes Europe less, not more flexible.

Commercial, the European Union is already the ability to calculate. It is a huge market for technology executives in TROMP. When the European Union chooses (often no), it can act independently around the world, and follow its interests strongly, in particular, organizing its local market as it sees it appropriate. This is important to Technology industry more than most.

The Europeans’ reaction was more wild to the strengthening of Vans to the far right, but it should give them a museum from Elon Musk a lot of stopping. Are the new leadership in the United States fighting the organization of the European Union in order to pave the way for the extreme right to power, or do you roar from the far right in order to promote governments ready to provide a large free technology? Like chicken and eggs, it is not a terrible useful question: both. But do not reduce the batch to include organizational sovereignty in Europe in favor of American technology. It is the most consistent talk between Trump’s followers.

Why Europe of interest to them a lot? Partially, of course, because it is easier to earn money if you can sell the same extractive services to European consumers as you have already caused in America. Politically, because it repeats the very strong tools to influence voters who built the Trump camp in the United States.

But also because European insistence that technical developments must take place in ways to respect consumers and citizens to develop alternatives. The major technology in America often discourages the European organization on the pretext that the heavy rules of the European Union kill innovation in Europe. But if this is true, what will they have to complain? The lack of innovation in Europe would reduce competition against them.

So, unlike what they say, the technology regulations in Europe are necessary (if not enough) for alternative products and technologies to appear, Big Tech opposition is more logical. It is a sign that Europe is on the right track. You should plow instead of its deviation.

The European Union and its member state, in the deviant sense, must be by facilitating. The insults and abandonment aside, they have been appointed to the most dangerous opponent of the Maga Trump world, which must be distorted first. Europe must adopt the paradox of Trump and his European Union’s charity in a greater estimate of the Europeans themselves, and to prove itself a worthy opponent.

Martin.sandbu@ft.com