English expert: Trump is a threat to Eastern Europe

– International news – Tasnim news, Ben Ansel, professor of political science at Nuffield College, Oxford University and one of the leading experts on British democracy, in a conversation with the newspaper De Volte In response to the question whether the West has lost its authority due to international developments, Germany said: The West has relatively lost its power. Before 1989, attacks on the West by non-Western powers were commonplace. Then the Soviet Union collapsed and the United States established itself as the dominant power. At the time, many believed that democracy had finally won. But it wasn’t like that. Little by little, Russia and China rose and rose at the same time, which led to the relative loss of global power in the West, as we see today.

He said about the dangers of Trump’s re-election in America : I do not believe that Trump threatens the structure of the so-called American democracy. He doesn’t make decisions to bypass Congress or limit voting rights. But he is a threat to democracy in Eastern Europe. He will not defend Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania in case of war. Therefore, European countries must act. Europeans now realize that they can no longer rely on the Americans to protect them. Europeans should have debated what it meant years ago, when the US was already complaining about it. But no one took these complaints seriously.

He went on to discuss the increase in the popularity of right-wing populist parties on the eve of the European elections and said: Many dissatisfactions and mistrust in the West stem from the fact that the growth The economy in most countries has been stagnant for two decades. Our policy becomes more negative and distributive in this situation. Due to this, it is very difficult to please people because everyone believes that life is harder for them than their parents.

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