FLASH
Shkruar nga Gjergj Zefi
The behavior with Giorgia Meloni was not a diplomatic blunder, but a symptom of a politics that confuses strength with arrogance and alliance with submission...
Donald Trump continues to treat America's allies as if he were the owner of a bankrupt casino and not the president of the most powerful country in the world.
His every public appearance resembles a performance where diplomacy is replaced by jokes, history by narcissism, and institutional respect by the insatiable need to always be the center of attention.
When he mocks Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and claims that she asked him for a photo, the problem is not the truth about the photo. The problem is the mindset. Trump knows no countries, no institutions, no history. He only knows himself. In his political universe, allies are not partners, but spectators forced to applaud. Whoever does not applaud enough is publicly humiliated.
Europe has reason to remind Trump of some things he seems to have forgotten, or never knew. America did not come from nothing. The civilization that inspired it, the laws that shaped it, the philosophy that guided it, and the political culture that made it great came from the continent he now treats with contempt. Rome, Athens, London, Paris, and Berlin were the centers of history when America did not yet exist as a state. No American president, however powerful, can reduce Europe to the role of a client anxiously awaiting his attention.
Trump appears to the world as he truly is: a street urchin accidentally introduced to the salons of diplomacy. He measures politics with the instincts of a real estate dealer. He sees respect as submission and alliance as a relationship of power.
As a megalomaniac concrete tycoon to whom a tired, angry, and polarized America opened the doors of the White House for the second time, Trump is transforming the presidency into a vulgar "trumpodrome." Every press conference becomes a spectacle. Every international crisis becomes a set design. Every ally becomes an extra.
History has known many leaders who have confused power with personal greatness. None has emerged victorious from this clash. America's power was not built on the mockery of allies, but on the ability to unite them. It was not built on the humiliation of partners, but on the respect it inspired. It was not built on the ego of one man, but on the strength of institutions.
Trump may believe that Europe needs him. Perhaps on some issues he is right. But he forgets that America needs Europe too. And when a president starts confusing alliances with vassalage, he is not weakening Europe. He is eroding the foundations of the world that America itself built after World War II.
Empires don't usually fall when their power runs out. They fall when they lose their amnesia. And Trump's amnesia is becoming more and more apparent every day./ Pamphlet
Eh Amerika nuk harron. Thote: nji n'men...Duhet kujdes me fjalet dhe strategjite...