Europe’s Subservience to the United States

The European continent, in its majority, whether within the so‑called European Union or outside it but part of its military expression through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has displayed unprecedented submission to the administration of Donald Trump and its hegemonic policies.

A Europe stripped of sovereignty now bows its head to be struck again and again in its dignity. A continent on its knees that fulfills the Trumpian desire for part of the world to kiss its rear, as he once boasted while launching threats and tariff blackmail. Europe was humiliated on the golf course owned by Trump in Turnberry, Scotland. There, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen represented the continent before the 21st‑century Sun King, simply kissing the filthy boot of the man who insults them.

Europe has been violated on its own soil, with von der Leyen smiling as she accepted the political deflowering of a continent that complacently obeys everything its “Daddy” orders, fearful when the blond billionaire threatens the world with tariff hikes. To this is added pressure on Denmark for Greenland to pass into U.S. hands, the demand that NATO’s European members raise defense spending to staggering levels, funds that will inevitably come from European workers’ pensions, health budgets, education systems and other social programs. This is the cost of being Washington’s compliant junior partner, Europe reduced to the backyard of an arrogant hegemon.

Most European countries will also foot the bill for the war in Ukraine, as decreed by Trump. Since February 2022, military and financial aid to the Zelensky government has exceeded 450 billion dollars and continues to grow. This subservient Europe must also pay more for gas and oil, at prices four times higher than what it once paid Russia. The big winners are the U.S. arms and energy giants. It is a 21st‑century Monroe Doctrine, “Europe for the Americans.”

Europe has capitulated unconditionally, displaying indecency in full view, a vassal continent, cowardly, ignominious, docile before its political pimp. This mirrors what I have repeatedly argued when criticizing the paralysis of European governments, which only accelerates the genocide carried out by their Israeli partner against the Palestinian people. It is the clearest example of governments unable to break free from the pressures and blackmail of the criminal partnership formed by the United States and the Zionist regime.

European statements on the undeniable genocide committed by Israel are always contradictory. The United Kingdom says it is willing to recognize a Palestinian state if Israel moves toward a cease‑fire, conveniently avoiding the core issue, which is the need to end the genocide and the occupation and colonization policies of its Israeli ally. France claims that in September, at the United Nations General Assembly, it will recognize Palestine, a decision taken long ago by 148 countries. Spain, Ireland and Norway took that step in 2024, a positive development but insufficient to stop the human rights violations against Palestinians, backed mainly by the United States and Germany.

At the High‑Level Conference on the Peaceful Resolution of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two‑State Solution, held Monday, July 28 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares stated that “more countries are joining in recognizing Palestine as a sovereign state. Israel is increasingly isolated and alone. We are many who recognize Palestine, and in September we will reach six or seven.” Such words require concrete action, such as governments jointly applying Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter to sanction the criminal Zionist entity.

I do not trust Europe. Its permanent reluctance to take measures to stop the killings and genocide of the Palestinian people by the Zionist regime is unacceptable. Now we hear Josep Borrell, in a belated column in El País on August 1, titled “Let’s Stop Being Complicit in the Genocide in Gaza,” urging the European Union to sanction Israel for repeated violations of international law. He writes, “For all those who have ears to hear and eyes to see, there is no longer any doubt: what the Israeli government is committing in Gaza is genocide, massacring and starving the civilian population after systematically destroying all infrastructure. These are grave, massive and repeated violations of international and humanitarian law committed daily by settlers and the Israeli army in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”

Borrell expands on this, now saying that “those who fail to act to end this genocide and these violations of international law, despite having the ability to do so, become complicit. This is, sadly, the case with the current EU leadership and those member states that refuse to sanction Israel, despite the Union’s legal obligation to do so.” His crisis of conscience has come too late. He too has been complicit in one of the most brutal genocides in the last 80 years.

In a previous article on this grotesque and undignified conduct, I argued that the political and military leadership of the EU and NATO, which includes many EU members, is incapable of creating and executing a long‑term political agenda based on European interests. Everything is dictated by Washington, in urgent alliance with U.S.‑based Zionist lobbies and Europe’s own troika of France, Britain and Germany.

This reflects a sterile European project, unable to achieve self‑determination or regain lost sovereignty under Washington’s shadow. U.S. hegemony, reinforced by the military‑industrial complex, Zionist lobbying and a compliant media sphere, dominates the narrative and drives support for Israel’s criminal policies. The Zionist lobby determines Western foreign policy in West Asia, ensuring political, military, diplomatic and financial backing for the Israeli state.

The persistent servility toward the United States and the refusal to show even minimal independence has turned Europe’s political class into a shameful stain on its 450 million citizens, a Europe of the three S’s: servile, submissive and subjugated, where U.S. interests prevail over national interests.

Recently, Europe negotiated tariffs with Trump on bended knee, receiving only crumbs in return. Trump shows no hesitation in violating World Trade Organization principles that he demands from the rest of the world, dealing a heavy blow to Europe’s industrial competitiveness. I can only hope that European societies will resist this shameful trajectory. Will they defend their acquired rights and demand those denied to them?

The peoples of Europe must remember and hold accountable those who surrendered without a fight to Trump’s dictates: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ursula von der Leyen, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte — the same man who calls Trump “Daddy” — will be remembered as the Uncle Toms of Europe.