Europe faces ‘terrifying prospect’ of Trump’s return

CBS reports that Donald Trump will attend the opening of one of his many trials this Monday (2) in New York. Instead of allowing himself to be cornered, he is incorporating the complaints into his election agenda.

In California over the weekend, the former president used platforms like Rumble to attack the Democratic governor, a possible replacement for Joe Biden if he agrees not to run.

CNN notes that “hopes are beginning to fade” that someone else will be the Republican nominee. In Europe, the fear goes even further after an ABC poll showed Trump at 51% and Biden at 42%.

On the cover of the European edition of Politico from the German group Axel Springer, “Can Europe Survive Trump 2.0?”, he already spoke of “leaving NATO” and is now promising a peace agreement with Russia.

His return “is a nightmare scenario for Europeans,” said the report, which reportedly heard from more than two dozen diplomats on the continent. The US leaving NATO is “a frightening prospect”.

In Russia’s Izvestia, historian Andrey Kortunov predicts with Trump greater control of resources for Ukraine and less pressure for “liberal values” on Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam “and even India.”

In the London Guardian, historian Timothy Garton Ash expects “emergency for Europe and crisis for the West”. In the title: “If Biden doesn’t resign, the world must prepare for Trump.”

In the Financial Times, columnist Janan Ganesh highlights the “threat” to NATO with the statement “What the world should expect from a second Trump term.” “More importantly, Trump is able to destress USChina relations.”

FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE VS. TELEGRAM EX

The New York Times and Die Welt, also owned by Axel Springer, published lengthy reports on problems in the fake news “checker industry.” It has become “dependent on social media companies” and now “if meta.” [Facebook] Cutting the thirdparty review budget could be decimated.”

The German newspaper reported critically on a European conference on “The Future of Fact Checking”. He questioned “the factcheckers’ dubious ‘mission'” and stressed that the event with two Google representatives ultimately focused on attacks on Telegram and X.