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‘Terrifying’: Trump’s Cabinet picks trigger unease in Europe
While some EU diplomats put a positive spin on China-hawk Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard’s intelligence role is generating greater alarm.
By Nicholas Vinocur and Clea Caulcutt
BRUSSELS — At first, European diplomats even felt some relief about the shape of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s new Cabinet when he chose Florida Republican Marco Rubio to be America’s top diplomat.
It didn’t last.
Trump’s subsequent choices — the barely known Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence — have heightened fears that Europe may need to prepare for the worst, and be ready to step up without its traditional NATO ally in a world riven by strategic flashpoints.
Gabbard, a former congresswoman who is known for amplifying conspiracy theories, meeting with Syrian leader Bashar Assad and embracing Russian President Vladimir Putin, was viewed as a particularly stunning choice.
“This is really terrifying,” Nathalie Loiseau, former French Europe minister under President Emmanuel Macron and now a European lawmaker in his Renew Europe group, posted on X.
“The time of European restraint and the hope that the USA would protect us is over,” said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the German who heads the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
Marek Magierowski, the former Polish ambassador in Washington, was cutting about Gabbard and her past “pro-Russian” comments. Three days after Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, she called on the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. to “embrace the spirit of aloha” and agree on Ukraine’s becoming a neutral country.
“As she becomes the head of the entire U.S. intelligence community, this is a very disturbing signal for sure,” he said on Polish television.
Early hopes
When Rubio’s name first emerged as Trump’s secretary of state pick at the beginning of the week, the initial reaction was cautiously optimistic, with diplomats, experts and officials in Europe, the U.K. and Israel noting he was an experienced foreign policy hand who backed NATO, was tough on Iran and wanted to defend Taiwan against any Chinese invasion.
Mike Waltz, the former Green Beret chosen as national security adviser, was also seen a safe choice. Foreign policy analyst Ulrich Speck defined the initial reaction as a “big relief.”
A European diplomat who, like others quoted in this story, was granted anonymity to speak freely, said: “They are a bit less awful than others.”
But after Gabbard and Hegseth were named, there is much more confusion.
“I’m not sure whether it’s really possible to make any sensible predictions about the direction of this administration based on the staff picks,” said another European diplomat.
The big question is what the nominations say about Trump’s approach to power and if anyone can be a restraining influence. “What’s clear is that there is not going to be any counterweight to Trump,” said the first European diplomat. “They owe him everything.”
EU officials and diplomats noted Trump had a habit of sidelining Cabinet officials and even U.S. intelligence agencies in pursuit of direct arrangements with autocrats like Putin or China’s Xi Jinping, and were skeptical that anyone could truly temper his instincts.
Rubio and Waltz have considerably altered their lines on Ukraine in recent months to be closer to Trump’s calls for a peace deal, with the Florida senator voting against a major aid package for Kyiv earlier this year, they pointed out.
Given the risk of Trump’s bulldozing foreign policy, a third EU diplomat said the bloc had to get ready to carry more of the weight on Ukraine.
“We know from the first iteration of Trump’s presidency how unpredictable policies might be,” the diplomat said. “Even if these two gentlemen [Rubio and Waltz] were to take a more moderate approach to Ukraine, that does not relieve the EU of the duty of preparing to do more.”
In Kyiv, officials were leery of making any comment for fear of angering Trump.
One intelligence official, who spoke on condition of being granted anonymity, tried to put a positive spin on Gabbard, saying that her job will be “just preparing information for the White House” and will not involve actual policy.
They also tried to downplay her previous pro-Kremlin comments. “All I can say [is] that a person who makes statements that are not pro-Ukraine is not always working for Russian money. He or she just can have [a] different view on things.”
Serious secretary of state
Of Trump’s choices for foreign policy and security roles, Rubio is by far the best-known among Washington’s allies, having visited Europe twice in the past five years — once in 2017 to Germany and France and again in 2020 to the Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Tom Tugendhat, a conservative U.K. lawmaker and former minister who said he’d known Rubio for a decade, praised him as a “serious figure” who has been a “clear voice” on topics such as China. Indeed, the two men share a hawkish stance toward Beijing, which has sanctioned Tugendhat.
“He is someone who has for a very long time invested in many relationships around the world and who has demonstrated himself to be a serious player,” Tugendhat said, adding that Waltz was also a “serious person.”
Pavel Fischer, a Czech senator who knows Rubio via their joint work for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), called Rubio an “important leader” who had rallied lawmakers around the world to focus on China.
Rubio’s hawkishness on China made him a “good fit” for Trump, who had pushed European allies to take action against Chinese tech firms Huawei and ZTE during his first term, Fischer said.
Analysts echoed the view that Rubio and Waltz would ramp up pressure on Europe to bolster defense spending, but would ultimately maintain Washington’s prior commitments toward Ukraine and Taiwan.
Rubio has been careful to downplay Trump’s anti-NATO comments. Asked earlier about Trump’s suggestion that he would “encourage” Russia to attack any NATO member country that didn’t meet its alliance financial obligations, Rubio downplayed the statement. “That’s not what happened, and that’s not how I view that statement,” he told CNN in February.
Speck said Rubio was unlikely to back a deal that would allow Putin to declare victory over Kyiv. “With regard to Ukraine, there is now some hope that the U.S. will not simply abandon Ukraine but engage in a serious process that doesn’t give Russia a victory one way or another,” he added.
The fact that Waltz pledged after his appointment, in a post on X, that “America will keep its allies close” and “not be afraid to confront our adversaries” was also taken as a positive sign.
Fears on Gabbard
There is much less optimism regarding Gabbard.
“This is seriously big and bad,” François Heisbourg, senior adviser for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, posted on X. “I hope the Senate will block her confirmation — but I don’t expect that to happen.”
Even on the earlier appointees, Heisbourg added: “The question is not so much ‘Can they rein in Trump?’ as ‘Will they want to?’ They are on board for the ride.”
Officials like Jim Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general who served as secretary of defense for two years during Trump’s first term, were also seen as restraining forces or “adults in the room” upon their appointment — only to be fired after disagreeing with the president.
John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019, warned in October that the president-elect’s foreign policy stance was likely to be far more radical during his second term than the first, saying: “The odds that he will withdraw from NATO are very high.”
“We’re in for a very, very rough few years in transatlantic relations,” Heisbourg added.
Jamie Dettmer, Jacopo Barigazzi, Veronika Melkozerova, Julius Brinkmann and Nahal Toosi contributed reporting.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald- ... rco-rubio/
While some EU diplomats put a positive spin on China-hawk Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard’s intelligence role is generating greater alarm.
By Nicholas Vinocur and Clea Caulcutt
BRUSSELS — At first, European diplomats even felt some relief about the shape of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s new Cabinet when he chose Florida Republican Marco Rubio to be America’s top diplomat.
It didn’t last.
Trump’s subsequent choices — the barely known Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence — have heightened fears that Europe may need to prepare for the worst, and be ready to step up without its traditional NATO ally in a world riven by strategic flashpoints.
Gabbard, a former congresswoman who is known for amplifying conspiracy theories, meeting with Syrian leader Bashar Assad and embracing Russian President Vladimir Putin, was viewed as a particularly stunning choice.
“This is really terrifying,” Nathalie Loiseau, former French Europe minister under President Emmanuel Macron and now a European lawmaker in his Renew Europe group, posted on X.
“The time of European restraint and the hope that the USA would protect us is over,” said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the German who heads the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
Marek Magierowski, the former Polish ambassador in Washington, was cutting about Gabbard and her past “pro-Russian” comments. Three days after Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, she called on the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. to “embrace the spirit of aloha” and agree on Ukraine’s becoming a neutral country.
“As she becomes the head of the entire U.S. intelligence community, this is a very disturbing signal for sure,” he said on Polish television.
Early hopes
When Rubio’s name first emerged as Trump’s secretary of state pick at the beginning of the week, the initial reaction was cautiously optimistic, with diplomats, experts and officials in Europe, the U.K. and Israel noting he was an experienced foreign policy hand who backed NATO, was tough on Iran and wanted to defend Taiwan against any Chinese invasion.
Mike Waltz, the former Green Beret chosen as national security adviser, was also seen a safe choice. Foreign policy analyst Ulrich Speck defined the initial reaction as a “big relief.”
A European diplomat who, like others quoted in this story, was granted anonymity to speak freely, said: “They are a bit less awful than others.”
But after Gabbard and Hegseth were named, there is much more confusion.
“I’m not sure whether it’s really possible to make any sensible predictions about the direction of this administration based on the staff picks,” said another European diplomat.
The big question is what the nominations say about Trump’s approach to power and if anyone can be a restraining influence. “What’s clear is that there is not going to be any counterweight to Trump,” said the first European diplomat. “They owe him everything.”
EU officials and diplomats noted Trump had a habit of sidelining Cabinet officials and even U.S. intelligence agencies in pursuit of direct arrangements with autocrats like Putin or China’s Xi Jinping, and were skeptical that anyone could truly temper his instincts.
Rubio and Waltz have considerably altered their lines on Ukraine in recent months to be closer to Trump’s calls for a peace deal, with the Florida senator voting against a major aid package for Kyiv earlier this year, they pointed out.
Given the risk of Trump’s bulldozing foreign policy, a third EU diplomat said the bloc had to get ready to carry more of the weight on Ukraine.
“We know from the first iteration of Trump’s presidency how unpredictable policies might be,” the diplomat said. “Even if these two gentlemen [Rubio and Waltz] were to take a more moderate approach to Ukraine, that does not relieve the EU of the duty of preparing to do more.”
In Kyiv, officials were leery of making any comment for fear of angering Trump.
One intelligence official, who spoke on condition of being granted anonymity, tried to put a positive spin on Gabbard, saying that her job will be “just preparing information for the White House” and will not involve actual policy.
They also tried to downplay her previous pro-Kremlin comments. “All I can say [is] that a person who makes statements that are not pro-Ukraine is not always working for Russian money. He or she just can have [a] different view on things.”
Serious secretary of state
Of Trump’s choices for foreign policy and security roles, Rubio is by far the best-known among Washington’s allies, having visited Europe twice in the past five years — once in 2017 to Germany and France and again in 2020 to the Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Tom Tugendhat, a conservative U.K. lawmaker and former minister who said he’d known Rubio for a decade, praised him as a “serious figure” who has been a “clear voice” on topics such as China. Indeed, the two men share a hawkish stance toward Beijing, which has sanctioned Tugendhat.
“He is someone who has for a very long time invested in many relationships around the world and who has demonstrated himself to be a serious player,” Tugendhat said, adding that Waltz was also a “serious person.”
Pavel Fischer, a Czech senator who knows Rubio via their joint work for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), called Rubio an “important leader” who had rallied lawmakers around the world to focus on China.
Rubio’s hawkishness on China made him a “good fit” for Trump, who had pushed European allies to take action against Chinese tech firms Huawei and ZTE during his first term, Fischer said.
Analysts echoed the view that Rubio and Waltz would ramp up pressure on Europe to bolster defense spending, but would ultimately maintain Washington’s prior commitments toward Ukraine and Taiwan.
Rubio has been careful to downplay Trump’s anti-NATO comments. Asked earlier about Trump’s suggestion that he would “encourage” Russia to attack any NATO member country that didn’t meet its alliance financial obligations, Rubio downplayed the statement. “That’s not what happened, and that’s not how I view that statement,” he told CNN in February.
Speck said Rubio was unlikely to back a deal that would allow Putin to declare victory over Kyiv. “With regard to Ukraine, there is now some hope that the U.S. will not simply abandon Ukraine but engage in a serious process that doesn’t give Russia a victory one way or another,” he added.
The fact that Waltz pledged after his appointment, in a post on X, that “America will keep its allies close” and “not be afraid to confront our adversaries” was also taken as a positive sign.
Fears on Gabbard
There is much less optimism regarding Gabbard.
“This is seriously big and bad,” François Heisbourg, senior adviser for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, posted on X. “I hope the Senate will block her confirmation — but I don’t expect that to happen.”
Even on the earlier appointees, Heisbourg added: “The question is not so much ‘Can they rein in Trump?’ as ‘Will they want to?’ They are on board for the ride.”
Officials like Jim Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general who served as secretary of defense for two years during Trump’s first term, were also seen as restraining forces or “adults in the room” upon their appointment — only to be fired after disagreeing with the president.
John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019, warned in October that the president-elect’s foreign policy stance was likely to be far more radical during his second term than the first, saying: “The odds that he will withdraw from NATO are very high.”
“We’re in for a very, very rough few years in transatlantic relations,” Heisbourg added.
Jamie Dettmer, Jacopo Barigazzi, Veronika Melkozerova, Julius Brinkmann and Nahal Toosi contributed reporting.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald- ... rco-rubio/
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Put@ merda, está escancarado o quanto a Europa é dependente dos EUA.
O Macron está certo, parece o único com culhões.
O Macron está certo, parece o único com culhões.
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Candidato a diretor de inteligência dos EUA fez comentários hostis ao Japão
“Os países agressores no Pacífico estão se rearmando” – nova administração Trump
15/11 (sexta-feira) entrega às 7h13
boletim informativo
A ex-congressista democrata dos EUA Gabbard em 24 de outubro, Las Vegas, Nevada (AFP Jiji)
[Washington Current Affairs] Descobriu-se que a ex-congressista democrata Gabbard (43), que foi escolhida como Diretora de Inteligência Nacional na próxima administração Trump, fez declarações hostis ao Japão no ano passado.
Em 7 de dezembro, em linha com o ataque a Pearl Harbor, no Havaí, pelos ex-militares japoneses, ela disse no X (antigo Twitter): “Lembrando a invasão do Pacífico, o atual rearmamento do Japão é realmente uma boa ideia?” escreveu: “Devemos ter cuidado”
A Sra. Gabbard, que é da Samoa Americana, serviu como membro da Câmara dos Representantes do Havaí antes de concorrer à indicação do Partido Democrata nas eleições presidenciais de 2020. Ela então se tornou independente, abordou Trump e ingressou no Partido Republicano em outubro deste ano. Ela também é conhecida por ter defendido a Rússia depois que esta invadiu a Ucrânia, e alguns questionam suas qualificações.
O Gabinete do Diretor de Inteligência Nacional é uma organização criada em resposta aos ataques terroristas nos Estados Unidos em 2001 e supervisiona todas as agências de inteligência dos EUA, incluindo a Agência Central de Inteligência (CIA). A nomeação como diretor requer aprovação do Senado, e espera-se que o processo de confirmação seja difícil para Gabbard, que não tem experiência de trabalho na comunidade de inteligência.
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A Grã-Bretanha enviará tropas se Trump reduzir a ajuda à Ucrânia, diz o ex-primeiro-ministro britânico Boris Johnson
Entregue em 14/11 (qui) 19h52
Versão japonesa da Newsweek
<Para evitar a todo custo o ressurgimento da Rússia e para proteger as fronteiras entre a Grã-Bretanha e os países europeus, não devemos permitir que a Ucrânia perca a guerra>
A Grã-Bretanha poderá ter de enviar tropas para a Ucrânia se o presidente eleito dos EUA, Donald Trump, cortar a ajuda financeira e militar ao país, disse um ex-primeiro-ministro britânico.
Numa entrevista ao meio de comunicação britânico GB News, o ex-primeiro-ministro britânico Boris Johnson (Partido Conservador) disse que não apoiar a Ucrânia aumentaria os custos para o Reino Unido e representaria uma ameaça à segurança europeia.
Ele acrescentou que se Trump cortar a ajuda à Ucrânia, seria melhor para o Reino Unido enviar tropas para a Ucrânia em vez de para os EUA.
Barron's enviou um e-mail à equipe de transição de Trump para comentar, bem como à HarperCollins, editora do livro de Johnson, após o horário comercial, mas não recebeu resposta.
A equipa de transição de Trump está a considerar formas de pôr fim à guerra na Ucrânia, incluindo o congelamento dos combates nas atuais linhas da frente e o estabelecimento de fronteiras. Será estabelecida uma zona desmilitarizada abrangendo aproximadamente 1.280 quilômetros, mas os Estados Unidos não enviarão tropas para a proteger nem pagarão por isso.
Trump também mencionou a possibilidade de os Estados Unidos se retirarem da OTAN no passado.
Impedir o ressurgimento da Rússia
Trump não anunciou quaisquer planos formais para uma guerra entre a Rússia e a Ucrânia, mas apelou a um cessar-fogo e disse que encerraria a guerra “dentro de 24 horas” se se tornasse presidente.
Ele também disse acreditar que a ajuda militar e financeira dos EUA à Ucrânia é “excessiva” e que a acabaria se fosse eleito presidente.
A atual administração do presidente Joe Biden disse antes de Trump assumir o cargo que planejava usar 6 mil milhões de dólares em ajuda militar à Ucrânia para ajudá-la a resistir aos soldados russos e norte-coreanos.
Numa entrevista ao GB News, Johnson disse: ``Porque é que o nosso país deveria apoiar a Ucrânia? [Se não o fizermos] a Rússia voltará e representará uma ameaça para todas as partes da Europa e para o nosso colectivo. "
"Então a Grã-Bretanha não terá escolha senão enviar tropas para defender a Ucrânia com grandes custos."
Ele alertou que uma derrota para a Ucrânia “representaria uma ameaça ainda maior para as nossas fronteiras e para as fronteiras de todas as democracias no continente europeu que faz fronteira com a Rússia”.
Muitos "fãs de Putin" no Partido Republicano dos EUA
Johnson também falou sobre as opiniões de Trump sobre a Ucrânia. “Donald Trump tem muitas opiniões diferentes em sua direção e há alguns no Partido Republicano que têm uma ideia errada sobre a Ucrânia.”
Alguns republicanos estão "fascinados pelo presidente russo Vladimir Putin" e têm "um estranho sentimento de fã em relação a ele".
Johnson diz que os legisladores republicanos podem estar a tentar fazer com que Trump corte a ajuda à Ucrânia, mas elogia que a ajuda passada de Trump tenha desempenhado um papel vital na luta do país.
“Trump foi quem aprovou a venda de mísseis antitanque Javelin para a Ucrânia no passado, e isso teve um enorme impacto no destino da Ucrânia”, acrescentou Johnson.
Em 2017, quando Trump era presidente, ele entregou dardos à Ucrânia, que lutava contra forças pró-Rússia na região de Donbass. Isto ocorreu depois que a Rússia anexou unilateralmente a Crimeia em 2014.
No entanto, existem preocupações de que Trump corte a ajuda financeira e militar à Ucrânia depois de tomar posse como presidente dos EUA em Janeiro de 2025.
Ed Davey, líder do Partido Liberal Democrata Britânico, também expressou preocupação sobre se Trump continuará a ajudar a Ucrânia. Davie instou Starmer a tomar "medidas anti-Trump" antes que Trump tome posse como presidente dos EUA.
Davey concordou com Johnson, dizendo: “Não podemos abandonar a Ucrânia e deixar isso para Putin só porque Trump chegou ao poder”.
"Deveríamos ser capazes de unir os países europeus e utilizar os ativos congelados da Rússia para financiar ainda mais ajuda à Ucrânia. Precisamos de agir rapidamente."
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Vinha só perguntar se alguém já sabe quantos milhares de atores de Hollywood já abandonaram os EUA?
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Vi por aí que em começos de JAN2025 a frota de jatos particulares em aeroportos da Califórnia, especialmente nos arredores de Los Angeles, irá reduzir-se em quase 90%... 
“Look at these people. Wandering around with absolutely no idea what's about to happen.”
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Até a Califórnia está a ficar farta deles
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