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    „Das Trump-Jahr beginnt mit einer antidemokratischen, antieuropäischen Offensive unter der Führung von Elon Musk“


    „Das Trump-Jahr beginnt mit einer antidemokratischen, antieuropäischen Offensive unter der Führung von Elon Musk“

    https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/03/the-trump-year-opens-with-an-anti-democratic-anti-european-offensive-led-by-elon-musk_6736667_23.html

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    1. LeMonde_en on

      **Like the US president-elect during his first term, the SpaceX boss attacks European leaders and promotes their opponents on X, his social media network. This is a worrying form of interference in a Europe where the far right is flourishing, writes Le Monde columnist Sylvie Kauffmann.**

      When Donald Trump led the United States from 2017 to 2021, the dread of his scapegoats was to open their Twitter accounts in the morning and discover a new tumble of insults, usually in capital letters and punctuated by exclamation marks, under which their day would be buried.

      On the eve of the Republican’s second term, which begins on January 20, things are a little different. Just a little: Twitter, bought by billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is no longer called Twitter, but X. Trump is back, after a long absence due to his exclusion from the social media platform after his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Today, it’s Musk himself, a future member of the Trump administration, who takes to it with relish. The targets, however, have not changed: The leaders of the major European countries allied with the US, preferably social democrats, are at the top of the hunting list. Even before the presidential inauguration, the Trump year opened with an anti-democratic, anti-European offensive led by Musk.

      The first Trump administration went after Chancellor Angela Merkel. Now, Musk has taken aim at her successor, Olaf Scholz, and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, described as an “undemocratic tyrant.” On Thursday, January 2, it was the turn of the British prime minister, Labour’s Keir Starmer, to come under fire from the boss of X. Musk accused Starmer of having covered up a vast and sordid scandal of rapes of underage girls perpetrated by gangs of Pakistani immigrants in Great Britain.

      There’s one detail that plunges Musk observers into an abyss of perplexity: His X account once again bears the name Elon Musk, after having been renamed, for the space of a New Year’s Eve, “Kekius Maximus,” illustrated by an armored frog. The more erudite recognized Pepe the Frog, ex-symbol of the American far right; others wondered about the mental age of the space and electric vehicle genius; financial specialists, meanwhile, noted that the value of the cryptocurrency of the same name, Kekius Maximus, gained 60% in one hour and enabled [savvy individuals to reap $2.3 million](https://www.cryptopolitan.com/elon-musks-x-move-tanks-kekius-maximus-token/) (€2.2 million) in the process.

      **Read the full article here:** [**https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/03/the-trump-year-opens-with-an-anti-democratic-anti-european-offensive-led-by-elon-musk_6736667_23.html**](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/03/the-trump-year-opens-with-an-anti-democratic-anti-european-offensive-led-by-elon-musk_6736667_23.html)

    2. DrKaasBaas on

      Now that Trump has been reelected we in Europe need to very seriously consider our geopolitical situaiton. After the events of the secod world war and the cold war Europeans started to believe and invest in a world order based on multilateralism; creating economic interdependences and fostering cooperation through institutions centered around human rights like the UN and the EU in the hopes that this would lead to stability. This even went so far as that we accepted smaller standing armies withouth a strategic nuclear deterrent in exchange for being under the US security blanket (i.e. NATO). While people these days call Europeans freeloaders for this, it in fact required a great deal of trust and sacrifices in terms of indepedendent foreign policy. But with people like Trump in charge EU can no longer afford this anymore. We need an independent credible army to protect our own interests and so we can come to a bilateral understanidng with Russia based on stregnth and common interests, but independent of the US. We also need closer ties with China/India.

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