Trump right to be outraged by Europe’s betrayal

There is a very deep-seated cultural appeasement in Europe toward the Iranian regime that goes back many decades, and a flat-out refusal to accept the reality of the immense dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran. Iran is a genocidal regime that threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Therefore, the lack of support for the United States is how far Europe has gone toward losing its moral compass. If one listens to European leaders, it’s as if the U.S. is the villain here.

The lack of Europe’s support has been nothing less than treacherous. Merz criticized the U.S. approach to Iran, saying Washington was being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership”. Comments like these actually help the propaganda of the Iranian dictatorship. It is astonishing that a German chancellor would make these kinds of remarks at a time of war, and that the German chancellor is giving comfort to the Iranian regime. It is disgusting.

As President Donald Trump continues to express anger at NATO European allies for their lack of help in the war with Iran, he’s making clear their behavior comes at a cost. In the weeks during the war and since the ceasefire, the president has hit back not just with words but with definitive actions against several of those countries.

On Saturday, Trump said that he would withdraw more than the initial 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, after Berlin’s leader denigrated the American effort to stop Iran’s regime from building a nuclear weapon. Trump ratcheted up his troop reduction number against Germany amid his comments about downsizing U.S. boots on the ground in Spain and Italy because they failed to aid America in the war against Iran.

There is a wide gulf between how mainly Western European countries and the United States view the preservation of Western civilization, freedom, democracy and liberty. Europe has lost both its ability and its will to fight. The United States is clearly willing to fight to defend Western civilization and the free world. Much of Europe has given up on this, especially Western Europe. It is an appeasement mindset cojoined with weakness and pacifism and also a growing acceptance by European leaders of mass migration and Islamification.

The crisis over the Iran war shows that Europe has surrendered. The big Western Europeans have embraced “defeatism,” and “they do not care. It is as simple as that. And future generations will have to pay the price for the course Europe is taking now.