I came across the northern Europe-Fennland and Estonia-in days of President Donald Trump, the Irrigation of the Opera, from his opening announcement that the days that were “raped” by other countries and “looting” America have ended, thanks to his semi-random materials for economies all over the world, until he climbed him on Wednesday and varied in Wall Street. It is clear that the drama will continue; Drama – as well as cruelty – is the point. But almost this cut in the Arctic, the entire game looked particularly, painfully. This is because these are places, unlike the United States, I really felt the pain of a living memory. They are places that make you ask: Why does anyone bring this to themselves if they do not have that?
Everywhere you go in Finland, people meet their fathers or grandparents in the winter war, the continuing war, or the Lapander-War-Boots of the Three Squaded by Nazi, Soviets and Allies during a larger global fire. They ended with the loss of the Finns of the second largest city for the Russians, and they pushed the vast “debts of war” to Moscow, and contracts of “employment”, a type of low -key services for the Kremlin. Now, of course, they share a long limit with Vladimir Putin. They are masters, at this point, from bleeding – to know how to calm water. In this process, they built a decent, prosperous nation, with what the surveys insist on is the happiest population on the ground. Although no, I would like to say, very happy – greatly happy.
The Eastonians had worse, as they were simply overlooked by the Soviets. In Tallinn, you can climb two hundred and thirty steps to the St. Olaf Church (which may have been the tallest building in the world in the sixteenth century). It was used by KGB as a monitoring and radio radio during the long occupation, which only ended with the fall of the iron curtain, in 1991. From Guido Kutser, who were imprisoned there in the early years of the Soviet occupation: “They started torturing me with various things – a chair, a whip – and beat me with their fists. I lost every time of time. They had a wonderful arsenal of elements.” But two generations later tallin are prosperous and calm. It came out of a café off the main square in the old city to find the country’s president and his visiting counterpart from the (very cold) audit forces. The two men were gathering to discuss cooperation on defense and economy. The local newspapers account quoted the Prime Minister of Estonia to reporters: “A strong Poland means Estonia is protected and powerful … Poland is a decisive ally of Estonia, which we can count on.”
Of course, the United States played a role in enabling this calm, by helping to win the Second World War and then by fighting the Cold War. Our mistakes in that war – Vietnam above all – are well known and shameful, but it is worth remembering the victories as well, which included the peace that allowed Finland to develop and Paltik to liberate themselves in the end of the Soviets. The Finnish Design Museum is a glorious place, full of MOOMIN statues and plans for the overwhelming modernity buildings of Aalto, but there was an impressive background in one exhibition: a Sports photographer Cover shows JFK on a boat with Jackie, who wears a sleeveless dress. As for Estonia, Kaja Class, the former Prime Minister of the country, who is now the head of the foreign policy of the European Union, expressed her grief last week in the Trump administration to freeze the funding of free Europe. Callas said in Brussels: “It was a beacon of democracy, and it is very valuable,” said Callas in Brussels. “Now the question for us is, can we get our financing to fill the void that we leave?”
But my view is not nostalgia for the past, and it is not about these noble countries. It relates to our country, which God has bestowed on many decades of relative calm since the end of the war, and the calm that allowed it to develop into the richest nation on the face of the earth. This calm continued, more or less, until January: even Trump could not reach a much stronger creation than his predecessor. It was clear that it was more prosperous for some of others, and it is clear that there are disturbances – Watergate, 9/11, Corona virus disease– But nothing permanently concluded our calmness that envy it historically. This calm, among other things, made America a safe haven in every crisis, the Treasury Ministry notes the harsh equivalent of money under the rank of the rest of the world’s less fortunate world.
This has gone now, or so it looks. Trump, driven by his strange demons, decided that America had been treated in some ways unfairly and that it should use the force that it gained to be bullying everyone to submit – in honor, well. (The other countries were “bending the knee”, and Caroline Levitt, his press secretary, insisted on it) did not succeed as expected: Many other countries decided not to decline, and it seems all over the world that people flee the dollar amid chaos, a new filmon seemed to have escaped even the president. But it seems unlikely that we simply reform the current situation; Liberation Day may have already started in a specific type of new and unwanted freedom to a large extent for the rest of the world, and no longer be able to trust the American umbrella to protect against global weather.
In one direction, all ugliness since the opening day seems to be a strange attempt to uproot America’s calmness and destruction. The president declared an emergency after another – a wooden emergency, an emergency of immigration, a commercial state of emergency. Elon Musk – the richest man in the world, sees it, but it may be the most bored – to be aware of almost random destruction, lights up on one agency after another and leaves it in a state of chaos. All post-war and prosperity institutions-our great universities, our public health system, our scientific research institution-has been damaged, and may not be repair. Not because they were costing huge sums, but because, at best, a series of resentment that arises when people have a lot of prosperity and comfort. Conservative commentator Matthew Schmits, for example, He said the Times On Monday, Trump had no choice but to overthrow the United States Agency for International Development, through its excellent work on public health on public health, because our embassies had Temereity to develop a rainbow science during the month of pride starting in 2011, although “45 percent of the country opposed gay marriage at that time.” The destruction of the American soft power in response to this type of moderate, moderate insult is a strong that gives only very safe – a group we no longer belong to.
We really no longer belong to the community of the world, at least, at least like anything other than trouble. We may not maintain torture cells (although our decision to deport detainees to a notorious prison in El Salvador has KGB) but certainly chose the United States from the real global project-to deal somehow with climate change-immediately on Trump’s rise to his throne. On Tuesday, the Minister of Commerce, Howard Lootnick, explained that the United States will withdraw four million dollars in the Golden Climate Research in Princeton because the results it reached-that the Earth exceeds its height-“contributing to a phenomenon known as” climate anxiety “, which has increased significantly among American youth. It is a kind of administration to be concerned about its uncomfortable, but I don’t think they have discovered its most urgent sources. ♦