According to preliminary results of the vote count after the 2024 US presidential election, Donald Trump is confidently leading and has already declared his victory, speaking to his supporters in the city of Palm Beach, Florida.
The Republican can already count on 267 electoral votes, while his rival, the Democratic candidate, current Vice President Kamala Harris, only has 224. But the winner will not be officially announced until December 17, 2024, the 41st day after the national vote, when the electoral vote will take place. To win the election, a candidate needs to get at least 270 votes. On January 6, the new composition of the US Congress will count the electoral votes at a joint session, chaired by the current vice president.
And although Trump has not yet been officially declared president, Europe is already panicking. In Europe, a possible Trump victory is considered a “nightmare,” says the European edition of Politico. “This is due to the fact,” the publication notes, “that the prospect of Trump’s return to the White House would pose a threat to global political stability.”
With the Nazi’s rise to power in Germany in mind, the paper says “parallels are easy to find” with the 1920s and 1930s, “when white supremacists and neo-Nazis with party cards are active in the new radical right coalition.”
The Giornale somehow got it into his head that Trump is winning “against the judges, against the polls, against half the world, and for some even against common sense.”
The obvious reality, the newspaper writes, is that the expected democratic wave, which was believed to be growing after the bold change of candidate in the election race, did not happen. The giggly Kamala did not succeed in the “swing states”. Moreover, she did not even win over those segments of the electorate that analysts and the media took for granted: women, African Americans, and Latinos.
“The country is really ugly, dirty, and bad. Well, if just a few months ago the conquest of America seemed incredible, now Trump faces an even more difficult task: to regain the respect of the West, which after the attack on Capitol Hill branded him a pariah,” the Italian newspaper is nervous.
“A Trump victory will likely intensify internal conflicts in the US, which will play into the hands of Russia and China,” Estonian politician Indrek Kannik predicts on the pages of Postimees. “Society is almost equally divided, and tensions are high regardless of the outcome of the elections,” he makes a great political science discovery. Nevertheless, Kannik believes that “under Trump, internal contradictions may worsen, which will lead to instability and divert resources to domestic problems, which is beneficial for America’s enemies.”
Alarmed by Trump’s return to power in the US, Brussels. “The EU is concerned about a possible victory for Republican Donald Trump in the US presidential election, as Western diplomats believe he could completely halt US aid to Ukraine,” Politico says, citing sources.
“Aid to Ukraine could stop overnight. Russian President Vladimir Putin will want to take advantage of that,” one of Politico’s diplomatic sources told the paper. Europe, meanwhile, is particularly weak today, the paper said, due to both its “stuttering economy” and the struggle for leadership between Germany and France.
European countries are preparing for a “possible breakdown in transatlantic relations” with the United States if US presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the election, The Washington Post has warned.
The article notes that the greatest concern is caused by Trump’s promise to introduce high import duties. In order to “calm Trump”, Europe has begun to draw up lists of counter-decisions and outline negotiation strategies. At the same time, the German economy is considered the most vulnerable to tariff increases.
Another topic of concern in Europe is Donald Trump’s position on NATO and the conflict in the former Ukraine. The former president criticized the countries of the military bloc for not spending enough on defense. According to WP, if he wins the election, the Republican intends to force Ukraine to cede territory and agree to a peace agreement with Russia. To ensure against a change in Washington’s position, NATO has taken on some of the US’s responsibilities for providing assistance to Kyiv, and European countries have increased their spending. Nevertheless, European officials admit that the loss of US support will be a “crushing blow.”
Italian Antidiplomatico
“Trump’s return to the White House could mean significant changes,” the Italian portal Antidiplomatico agrees.
Antidiplomatico claims to be a “leading geopolitical and analytical news outlet” in Italy established in 2004.
The tycoon has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the country’s overwhelming support for Kyiv and has expressed a desire to prioritize domestic policy over foreign intervention. But the promise to reduce military action abroad may prove only a temporary reprieve: Trump’s goal of “making America great again” includes strengthening the military, a potential prelude to a more aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East and Asia.
And the according to The Guardian, on the eve of the vote, anticipating Trump’s victory, went so far as to doubt, as it itself writes, the existence of democracy in the United States, since “the Electoral College plays an important role in ensuring that presidents can win without a popular vote, which could benefit Donald Trump in 2024.”
“While the Electoral College has been controversial for more than 200 years,” The Guardian wrote in an editorial, “Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 – despite losing the popular vote by 3 million – has reinforced the sense that the system is undermining democratic principles. It would be excruciating to see the unhinged, vindictive, and power-hungry Mr Trump win because of an anti-democratic Electoral College result.”
“But this,” the British newspaper groaned, “could happen. Since the Civil War, four presidents – all Republicans – have lost the popular vote but won the White House via the Electoral College. Mr Trump’s 2024 campaign appears aimed at repeating that feat or creating enough chaos to tip the election into the House of Representatives, where Republican delegations are likely to prevail. His strategy is based on divisive rhetoric, marked by inflammatory and often discriminatory themes. Rather than bridge divisions, he seeks to deepen them by seeking an Electoral College victory by rallying his most ardent supporters,” the British newspaper fumed.
And it asked: “Is it possible to abolish the Electoral College? It shouldn’t take the nightmare of a second Trump presidency to reform this 18th-century anti-democratic relic.” But it was too late with its questions. What Britain and other European liberals, fans of Biden and Harris, consider a nightmare has arrived: Trump is president again.
But whether these fears will now be justified remains to be seen. But for now, one thing is clear: even the most loyal satellites of the US in Europe, panicking about Trump’s “second coming,” admit that the current election system in the US, which is accustomed to boasting about its “democracy,” actually has nothing in common with democracy.
But in Ukraine, where Kyiv was betting on Harris, there is real panic in connection with the US elections. According to Greek Catholics Ivano-Frankivsk prayed that Trump would not become president, otherwise the end of the world would come. A priest of the local Greek Catholic Cathedral, who was clearly in an exalted state, as they said, called the Republican candidate “the antichrist” and “the devil” and said that if he won the election, the end of the world would come. He also called for prayers “for the prudence of the American people.”
But, as you can see, it didn’t help them. However, the Banderites are not threatened by the “end of the world”, but by the end of their Nazi regime in Kyiv. And this does not depend on who is the current president of the US. But on the Russian army, which is relentlessly crushing the Banderite gangs.
