President Donald Trump is informing the world that the era of falsehood in American foreign policy is over. The left-wing propagandists, the European leader, are as expected. But in this new era of American foreign policy, there is a clear echo for both former presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. It is a resonance that should be reassuring to Americans.

European leaders can sit in a hurry at a depicted dinner and hold all the relationships they want, but they cannot escape history. Europe has been destroyed by culture, language and ancient hostility that has maintained its region at a certain stage of conflict for centuries. In the last century, European conflicts sparked two of the deadliest world wars in human history.

Today, European leaders have allowed their country to overrun refugees From the Middle East, at the expense of competitiveness, succumbed to the climate mob most relevant to the current situation in Ukraine, allowing Russia to continue its continental energy threats. They’re just backing The Gaza Reconstruction Plan was developed without Israel and supported Palestinian authority.

What Trump is doing is to assert our leadership after years of American retreats. During the Obama and Biden administrations (12 of the last 16 years of US foreign policy), the key tenet of the left “lead from behind” strategy was to allow fragmentary forces of the European Union and NATO to assert greater dominance over the strategic direction of the Western Union. Meanwhile, the world is undoubtedly becoming more dangerous and less safe. (Related: Tom Basile: There’s one big reason Democrats hyperventilate via Doge)

Trump’s more powerful approach to Europe could be causing pits in the media and social media, but in reality it’s backed by a strong precedent.

When Nixon took office in his first meeting with European leaders in 1969, he revealed the unpleasant point of the US being involved with the Soviet Union on various issues. President Nixon had not invited Europe to the table for these discussions. It didn’t sit well with friends across the pond, but the US had to lead against the Soviets.

In today’s environment, Nixon’s diplomatic strategy is condemned as a “take-two to dictators” as president.

During the Reagan administration, there was a polite, if polite, discrepancy in how to deal with methods that included the threats of the then Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, mainland Europe and the Soviet Union. President Reagan listened to his counterparts, but there was no doubt that he was pushing for a strategy to end the Cold War.

Trump’s position that Europe should play a greater role in its own security also reflects Nixon, who made it clear during his first term that when the US tried to rescue Vietnam, he hopes that Asian countries will better deal with their own security issues, unless threatened by nuclear power.

It does not abandon US leadership position. It strengthens it.

President Trump has the right to blow up Europe due to his hypocrisy and helpless attempts to cut back on the design of Moscow’s empire.

Former President George W. Bush advocated Georgia’s inclusion in NATO to protect it from Russian invasions. Europe said no and Putin tumbled across the border.

Of course, recently, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, According to For the Energy and Clean Air Research Center, EU countries have spent more than $220 billion on Russian gas, an average number each year, but still, Russia Number 2 The largest exporter of LNG and natural gas to Europe.

The Trump administration is further justified in regaining policy leadership, as not only American taxpayers pay large bills for security costs, but even many of our closest allies appear to have fallen out of the fundamental values ​​that characterize free Western countries.

Vice President J.D. Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech in Munich made that point clear and it was perfectly appropriate. He cited cases such as Germany, Sweden, Belgium, the UK, Scotland, and others where freedom of speech, religion and conscience is currently constantly being attacked. When you can be arrested in England for public praying or posting memes in Germany, as Vance called it, “thinking crimes,” Europe sees symptoms of the collapse of fundamental values ​​that led to the 20th century fire.

Despite all data and historical benchmarks, we have been conditioned to consider Europe to be a model of value. This is the result of the media’s long-standing acceptance of euro-centric policies, including former Secretary John Kelly, former President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

A subtext to Trump’s approach to Europe is that the continent’s hardening approach to European values ​​and international issues is no longer considered to be superior or even equal to what the US is driving.

Americans should truly embrace that approach.

Without a doubt, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is a murderer and imperialist who repeatedly attempted direct conquests and asymmetric tactics to reconstruct the Soviet Union.

The American people and the world will be waiting to see how President Trump will proceed with talks in Ukraine with an approach that opposes future Russian attacks. However, the concept that Europe should either guide those negotiations or trust that it provides a meaningful measure of direction without US guidance is unrealistic and unwise.

Trump has pledged to end the killings in Ukraine, which began with Putin’s nature and Biden’s inaction. His European reset could be jarring for some, and could result.

Europe cannot escape the history of dithering and division. I also can’t look east for my friends. And it is to the east that both Europe and America face their biggest challenges, to cover the bears and tame the dragons.

Tom Basile is the author of Newsmax, a conservative columnist, speaker, Tough Sell: Targing The Media War in Iraq and host of Newsmax’s “Now Now,” a former Bush administration official. x Follow him at @tom_basile. For more information, please visit www.tombasile.com

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