Published in Der Spiegel
(Germany) on 12 March 2025
by Matthias Gebauer, Frank Hornig, Paul-Anton Krüger, Steffen Lüdke and Britta Sandberg (link to
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While European leaders want to preserve the American security umbrella without subscribing to Trump’s ideological project, he demands that they adhere to a MAGA-fied global order yet offers little in return.
Trump, grandson of a German immigrant, is particularly peeved at an independent South Africa, which was the worst example of a Western supremacist-cum-colonial mindset.