Is Trump Pivoting East in Europe?

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American Thinker
Alex Alexiev
June 18, 2018

As Trump haters are having yet another field day on account of his ostensible faux pas at the G-7 meeting in Canada, and leftist pundits fall over each other screaming that Trump has no strategic vision, as others just as self-assuredly accuse him of planning to “break the West,” which, on the face of it, requires plenty of strategic vision. While this silliness continues to rapidly declining effect, there are now signs that the White House is putting together a robust strategy in Europe that was missing until now.

It comes in the shape of A. Wess Mitchell, who was just appointed the point man at the State Department for Europe and Eurasia. The significance of this appointment, which was missed in the cacophony of anti-Trump perorations, was much on display at the very first programmatic speech he gave last week at the Heritage Foundation. Before delving into the speech, a couple of words about his background, which is important part of his appointment. Mitchell is a bona fide expert on Eastern Europe with three books to his credit and, more importantly, the long-term leader of CEPA (Center for European Policy Analysis), the only Washington think tank dedicated to the study of Eastern Europe.

More... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/is_trump_pivoting_east_in_europe.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

Hope so.

[endicom]

Hope so.

Better to be with who wishes to defend and better themselves than with who are determined to destroy themselves.

[Fishrrman]

Agreed with Right in Virginia.

"Pivoting East" is the smart move for the USA and Europe.

Western Europe (with a few exceptions such as Austria and lately, Italy) seems intent on destroying itself by submitting to islam.

The Eastern Europeans seem to cherish both Western Culture and Christianity, and have little use for islam (bless 'em!).

Why waste our time with a civilization dying by its own choices...?

[TomSea]

"It is Russia and China who “want to break the West,” he said and EU allies (read Western Europe) who are showing insufficient willingness to “defend their own continent."

... Compare this attitude to the enthusiastic support for NATO’s role by nine Eastern European countries (known as the Bucharest 9) which met in Warsaw, as Mitchell was speaking, and endorsed a greater role for the alliance in the East. It is this clear and widening fault line that has prompted numerous pundits to speculate that Trump may be pivoting to the East in Europe, while others have interpreted it as a declaration of war on Russia.

This is good, Mitchell apparently recognizes the danger.

[dfwgator]

Three Seas Initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Seas_Initiative

I am completely in favor of these countries breaking away from the EU.