One of the more interesting things to occur while waiting for Trump to be installed as the new ruler of America has been Elon Musk taking on Europe. First, he wrote an essay in support of the political party Alternative for Deutschland, which sent the German political class into a panic. Then Musk attacked the British government for covering up the Pakistani rape gangs. He also demanded the release of Tommy Robinson and said Nigel Farage should quit and let a real man take over the Reform Party.

Stupid people said he was doing this to distract from the dustup over H1B visas, but stupid people say stupid things like this. The world’s richest man, close confident of the new ruler of the American empire, does not need to distract from anything and he does not take aim at the provincial leaders in Europe to hide from a meaningless internet spat over immigration policy. It is safe to assume that what Musk is doing is both deliberate and with the support of Trump.

The first thing to note is that Trump does not like Keir Starmer. No one likes Starmer, but Trump has reasons beyond that to attack him. Starmer was on the anti-Trump train, and he sent people to help Harris in the election. This was a huge blunder that Trump will never forgive. Given that Starmer is as popular as rectal cancer right now, Trump can easily put his government in crisis. We already see this with the Musk attacks on Starmer over the rape gangs.

Keep in mind, that this is happening against the backdrop of Justin from Canada resigning from office after Trump made fun of him. Trump started talking about tariffs on Canada and Trudeau immediately flew to Mar-a-Lago to patch things up only to have Trump call him the governor of Canada. This kept up until the Trudeau government essentially collapsed, forcing Trudeau to resign. The collection of pipsqueaks that make up the European political class certainly noticed this.

Keir Starmer has more to worry about than Trudeau. The British political class has been orchestrating a massive coverup of what should be considered treason by the political class over the last two decades. They invited South Asian migrants into the country, who then created a crime wave, including the mass rape of young British girls as a way of turning them into prostitutes. Meanwhile, the British press waged war against the local population.¹

In other words, it would be very easy for an angry Trump, with the help of his good friend Elon Musk, to destabilize the British government. If the choice is between Keir Starmer, and his diverse collection of halfwits, and the relationship with the American empire, the UK economic elite will pick the latter, even if it means forcing an unprecedented election in which the hated Nigel Farage could win. This is not a fight the UK political class can win.

This is a reality across the EU. The European political class can talk big and pretend they are global leaders, but in reality, they are provincial clodhoppers who exist at the discretion of the United States. Trump has more respect for the wine steward at Mar-a-Lago than he does for Emmanuel Macron. Given the fragile condition of the European economy and the even more fragile political conditions in Europe, Trump could easily remake the politics of Europe if he chooses.

While the drama is interesting and amusing, there is something much bigger happening here regarding the relationship between America and Europe. It is well known that Trump has no use for NATO. He sees it as an expensive American obligation to a collection of pampered ingrates. He has repeatedly said the economic relationship with Europe must change, because as far as he is concerned, the Europeans have been freeriding on America for too long.

What we may be seeing here is the first salvos in an asymmetric war by the Trump administration on the legacy relationship between America and Europe. The choice before the Europeans is to either accept vassalage in exchange for continued American protection or regain their independence but do so without special access to American markets and the American defense umbrella. At long last, the Europeans are going to learn that there is something worse than being an enemy of America.

For their part, the Europeans are taking every chance to make things worse for themselves in this process. Probably the biggest mistake was the arrest of the Telegram founder Pavel Durov by the French. Macron lured him to France, where he was arrested on nonsense charges. If the Europeans will arrest this guy, then they will arrest Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. This was the equivalent of the butler telling his boss to shut up at a dinner party for the boss’s close friends.

The angry comments from Macron, Starmer and Olaf Scholz, the outgoing German chancellor, aimed at Elon Musk suggest these people are incapable of understanding what is happening to them. At some point the economic elites of Europe may have no choice but to step in and begin forcing through reform. This assumes the economic elites have enough gas in the tank to do it. Decades of poor management by the political class have sapped Europe of its economic strength.

Regardless, what we are seeing is the start of a process that will lead to a fundamental revision of the decade’s old relationship between the America and Europe. Similar to how the so-called captive nations of the Soviet Union broke free, ushering in the collapse of communism, this jettisoning of Europe by the United States will mark the end of both Cold War America and the unipolar world. Decades after the Cold War officially ended, it will finally end in the West.

¹Graph first published by Gerry Nolan at The Islander Telegram channel.

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