Europeans Are Suffering from Abandonment Syndrome

America’s feigned disengagement is fueling resentment and bitterness throughout the free world.

US president accuses European leaders of weakness and says migration policies have ‘ruined’ major nations / Reuters

There are reflections we can no longer postpone.

We are living through turbulent times, swept by a wind of change blowing across every corner of the planet. In this global landscape, laden with tension and uncertainty, there is a widespread sense of standing on the brink of an epochal transition.

In the United States, internal divisions between Republicans and Democrats have hardened into an identity fracture—a people that seems to have forgotten it is bound together by a shared destiny. But Europe is not so different. We are fragmented into some thirty countries, each with its own history, culture, and interests, yet all grappling with the same fears, the same challenges, the same political and economic dilemmas.

A complex mosaic that, despite its diversity, continues to recognize itself as a single people in search of a common voice.