[Opinion] Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin?

Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin?

The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty of the horrific crimes detailed in his International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. Duterte himself boasted quite openly of the mass killings he’s been accused of. But I always thought that the prospects of bringing that brutal, outspoken politician to justice were remote indeed. After all, Duterte’s daughter Sara is c…

The baptized "liberation day" by Donald Trump has only generated fear and uncertainty. Not even in the heart of American capitalism is hope breathed. The Wall Street Journal, the Bible of Republican Conservatives, augurs for the end of the global leadership of the United States. We are at the beginning of a new era, but we do not know what awaits us from now on. The consequences, all negative, of the widespread tariff rise agreed by Trump are di…

Vladimir Putin was only short of saying in public what, who knows, he may have said in private to his new best friend, Donald Trump (although they are highly likely to be friends and collaborators for a long time): "Dear Donald, let us divide the world; to begin with, I will stay with Ukraine and you, with Greenland."If Putin had said such a thing, Trump would have nodded with a broad smile.There is no known record of what was said textually dur…